Re: paleonet keeping the faith

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@xxxxxxx>]

In article <E1D9Tso-0001D7-00@newt.nhm.ac.uk>, Bill Chaisson/Deirdre 
Cunningham <chaisson@netacc.net> wrote:
> While I support discussion of the creationist/ID vs. evolution topic 
> on Paleonet, I do think that it is a waste of effort to approach the 
> creationist and intelligent design camps as if they would ever be 
> reconciled by force of logic to allowing evolution (and, by 
> extension, historical geology) to be taught in public schools.
> 
> Most of the contributions to this discussion of late begin implicitly 
> with the clause "If they would just listen to reason and understand 
> that ..."
> 
> Friends, that's not going to happen.
>
       As one of my regular correspondents before the Death Of 
Compuserve used to sign his messages:
"You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not arrived at by 
reason."

-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10'11" N,  02°08'43"  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233