From: Denyse O'Leary (oleary@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 14:53:15 EDT
I agree, Richard.
And while we are on the subject of respectfulness, whoever made the
comment about "date rape" was way over the top.
(Don't tell me who it was. I scrubbed the file immediately and pulled
the chain on the trash bin.)
This is supposed to be a "respectable" online watering hole.
If it's not, what are WE all doing here?
Denyse
richard@biblewheel.com wrote:
> Re post: http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0650.html
>
> I had written:
>
>
>>>Also, my point was that if we do live in an ID universe, which you
>>>admit to be possible, then it would seem that ID science would be
>>>*necessary* to correctly understand our universe. Is this correct?
>
>
> To which Glen replied:
>
>
>>I don't think there is anything such as ID science. It is play science,
>
> like
>
>>what I did as an 8 year old when I would ask my play mate to pass me the
>>kurgian chemical and I would mix it (in my game) to dungarium to form the
>>great explosive dinopoop. All in all it was great fun. There was nothing
>
> we
>
>>couldn't make up and do in my 'laboratory'.
>
>
> Glen, please forgive me for commenting on this, but I *must* ask if this is
> an appropriate way to characterize the beliefs and scholastic activities of
> those with whom you disagree. Jim Armstrong chastised me for nothing more
> than my statement that "I believe it explains a lot of the problems we are
> finding in your work."
> (cf. http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0538.html)
>
> Jim ended his chastisement with the suggestion:
>
> "Perhaps there's just a slightly more respectful way to engage and learn
> from one another. "
>
> I wonder, what he would have to say about a pre-pubescent scatalogical
> characterization of an opponents work?
>
> The problem is that our discussion will soon degenerate into what flows from
> the viscus if we allow such visceral expressions to our frustrations.
>
> Again, please forgive me for commenting. I am not trying to embarrass you.
> Your comment was simply inappropriate and needed to be addressed, imho.
>
> You then wrote:
>
>
>>ID never defines what it means to be ID'd.
>
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