Re: ICR and its slurs

Brian D Harper (harper.10@osu.edu)
Fri, 23 May 1997 12:12:30 -0400

At 11:08 AM 5/23/97 EDT, Jim Bell wrote:
>Russell Stewart writes:
>
><<It has everything to do with causality. Do racists simply distort evolution
>to support their beliefs, or is the theory of evolution directly responsible
>for the origin of those beliefs? You and others claim the latter, and the
>evidence clearly contradicts you.>>
>
>JB:This is a mischaracterization. I urge you to read my posts more
>carefully, and not distort what I'm saying. If you go back over
>them, you'll clearly see I am NOT claiming the latter, but the former,
>and have from the very start. That is why I use the word "justification"
>and not "causality." If that was not clear
>to you before, it should be now, right?
>

I'm curious Jim, do you find all distortions to be logically compelling
or is it only this one?

Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
The Ohio State University

"God forbid that we should give out a dream of
our own imagination for a pattern of the world"
-- Francis Bacon