All lawyers rely on experts to carry on their cases. A medical malpractice
lawyer does not have to be a medical doctor in order to defend someone in
court. A criminal lawyer does not have to be an expert in DNA in order to
understanding it sufficiently for the purpose of the defense. Believe me I
have no love for lawyers but if you can match your wits with one, then you
are doing well. If you can't, then don't call them names!
Take care,
Moorad
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Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Phil Johnson's agenda
>At 08:51 AM 12/6/99 -0500, Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>>Dear Glenn,
>>
>>I know the words of our Lord vis a vis lawyers. I suppose if my own
daughter
>>weren't a lawyer, then I would feel more repelled by them. To change
>>people's mind you have to bring forth the assumptions they are making and
at
>>times try to undermine them. We have to think sharply and lawyers are
>>trained to do that. "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of
>>wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matt. 10:16.
>
>I do beg to differ a bit. Lawyers are not trained to think more 'sharply'
>than are scientists. Scientists are trained to think even sharper than
>lawyers. I will say that with the exception of patent lawyers I haven't met
>many who really understood science and Phil is a great example of not
>understanding science.
>
>Before you pull out your 'my-daughter-is-a-lawyer' again, my wife is a
>paralegal, her father is a judge (who when I married was a prominent
>attorney), my brother-in-law is a lawyer, so I have them all around me and
>know their abilities vis-a-vis the sciences. As a scientist, they can't
>shine shoes. As legal beagles, they are fantastic and I can't shine shoes!
>glenn
>
>Foundation, Fall and Flood
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
>
>Lots of information on creation/evolution