Re: Behe, Dennett, Haig debate at Notre Dame 1/2

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Fri, 02 May 1997 15:04:02 -0600

At 02:54 PM 5/2/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Pim wrote:
>
><<Jim: I'm sorry, Pim, but talk.origins does not constitute a legitimate,
>objective, credible or refereed forum for "showing" much of anything. I
>posted a criticism of the Robison piece (which you rely on) some time ago.
>
>I am surprised how easily you dismiss data you do not agree with as not
>legitimate.>>
>
>You've changed the issue. Address the one I presented, viz., that talk.origins
>is not a legitimate scientific journal. That's why the "data" is automatically
>questionable.

But you didn't "question" the data, you dismisssed it offhand, because it
was in a forum that you don't like.

The paper comes with full references. If you have found any errors,
discrepancies,
or mistakes in the sources referred to (you have checked those sources, haven't
you?), then explain them in detail. Otherwise you are guilty of the same elitism
that Creationists always accuse scientists of.

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