From: Iain Strachan (iain.strachan.asa@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 11:56:31 EST
David F. Siemens:
>
> This braying jackass refuses to recognize that bacterial and viral genes
> have been incorporated in most genomes by transfer. It has nothing to do
> with descent. I find it hard to believe that anyone with even the most
> rudimentary familiarity with the literature would make a statement like
> Anderson's. I conclude that such falsehood must be deliberate.
> Dave
>
Since Vernon Jenkins has been taken to task and asked to apologise for the
relatively minor slip of allowing the word "Gulag" to get into an ironic
response, and told by G.M. to apologise, I feel compelled to take issue with
the above piece of nastiness, typical of much that I see on the list that
goes unchallenged because it is directed at YEC's rather than by them.
If the above had actually been directed to a poster on a list, rather than
one being cited as a poster, it ought to have been condemned as an outright
ad hominem attack, calling the person simultaneously a "braying jackass",
and also a liar. I trust Siemens will do the decent thing and apologise
for this intemperate outburst. However scientifically valid the point
you're making is, David, you have absolutely no right to couch it in such
language.
Iain Strachan.
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