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To: actualass who wrote (72810)	10/5/2006 2:11:47 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206176

Well, if you want to get technical and identify "believing" as a gerund, it would be "stop people's believing," but actually it is a case of an implied preposition: "stop people [from] believing in it." But let me be more explicit. The implication of my elliptical sentence is that it seems impossible to prevent some people who are so [ . . . deleted . . . ]about geology from believing in abiotic origins for commercially produced hydrocarbons. Some people might add that such people are almost as [ . . . deleted . . . ] as self-appointed grammarians, but it would not be polite to say things like that.