Re: the role of sex in evolution

From: Stephen E. Jones (sejones@iinet.net.au)
Date: Sat Apr 08 2000 - 06:12:45 EDT

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    On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:49:32 -0500, Susan Brassfield wrote:

    [...]

    >SJ>All
    >>one has to do is point to a `verse' in the evolutionist's `Bible', the
    >>Talk.Origins website, and all will be well!

    SB>creationists of all kinds *hate* the talk.origins website :-)

    [...]

    Well, I don't. And I have never heard of any creationist say (publicly
    or privately" that he/she"hates" *any* evolutionist website.

    [...]

    SB>This: "`verse' in the
    >evolutionist's `Bible', the Talk.Origins website" is ad hominem of the
    >first water.

    [...]

    An "ad hominem" against a *website*???

    Steve

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    watch, with its various machinery, accounted for, by being told that it was
    one out of possible combinations of material forms; that whatever he had
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