Re: To all uncommitted lurkers

From: Richard Wein (rwein@lineone.net)
Date: Sun Oct 22 2000 - 07:09:24 EDT

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    Oops, I overlooked one uncommitted lurker. (Her post somehow managed to get
    a timestamp that predated the time of my original appeal.) So that makes
    two!

    Richard Wein.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Richard Wein <rwein@lineone.net>
    To: Evolution Reflector <evolution@calvin.edu>
    Date: 22 October 2000 11:52
    Subject: Re: To all uncommitted lurkers

    >My thanks to the lurkers (committed or uncommitted) who responded to my
    >appeal. It's nice to know that *someone* is following the discussions here.
    >
    >By my count, we had only two responses, and one of those described himself
    >as a creationist, so should not be considered uncommitted. (By committed, I
    >don't mean irrevocably wed to a position. I just mean that one has, for the
    >time being, made up one's mind.)
    >
    >So it seems we only have evidence of *one* uncommitted lurker. Perhaps
    >Stephen should in future refer to "uncommitted lurker" in the singular.
    ;-)
    >
    >(I'm joking, really. Given the number of subscribers to the Reflector, I
    >expect there are a few more uncommitted lurkers out there, who prefer to
    >remain anonymous. But it's impossible to know whether there are many, as
    >there are no doubt also other lurkers are already committed, as well as
    >subscribers who rarely read the posts.)
    >
    >Richard Wein (Tich)
    >--------------------------------
    >"Do the calculation. Take the numbers seriously. See if the underlying
    >probabilities really are small enough to yield design."
    > -- W. A. Dembski, who has never presented any calculation to back up his
    >claim to have detected Intelligent Design in life.
    >



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