I am terminating this thread, since we are starting to go around in circles
and I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities to address the same points
again, and again, and again...!
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:31:04 -0600, Susan Brassfield wrote:
[...]
SB>Please address me directly. Speaking about me in the third person is
>extremely rude and doesn't really help your case.
[...]
There is no intention to be rude, indeed my intention is to *minimise*
rudeness. As stated in my first message I will post all my messages
to the Group, in order to minimise the personal factor:
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 05:01:34 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
>...I haven't got the time to get involved
>in long-drawn out, person-to-person, debates (as in the past), so I will post
>all my messages to the group...
This works very well on the other list I am on. Besides, my posts *are*
to the Group, not to any one individual.
I really cannot see why "You said..." is less rude than "Susan
said...". Indeed, I would have thought the latter is more polite.
But since Susan is offended by my mention of her name in the third person,
I will try to minimise referring to her by name as far as possible.
However, I will still keep posting to the Group, and I would encourage others
to do likewise. If everybody did this, it would make it a more scholarly
debate.
Steve
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"When we consider a human work, we believe we know where the
`intelligence' which fashioned it comes from; but when a living being is
concerned, no one knows or ever knew, neither Darwin nor Epicurus,
neither Leibniz nor Aristotle, neither Einstein nor Parmenides. An act of
faith is necessary to make us adopt one hypothesis rather than another.
Science, which does not accept any credo, or in any case should not,
acknowledges its ignorance, its inability to solve this problem which, we
are certain, exists and has reality. If to determine the origin of information
in a computer is not a false problem, why should the search for the
information contained in cellular nuclei be one?" (Grasse P.-P., "Evolution
of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation,"
Academic Press: New York NY, 1977, p2)
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