From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. (dfsiemensjr@juno.com)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 15:23:28 EST
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:56:31 -0000 "Iain Strachan"
<iain.strachan.asa@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 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.
>
Sorry. I see that I have to apologize to all members of /Equus asinus/
and /E. hemionus/. At lest one of their members rebuked an erring
prophet. I should not have associated Anderson with creatures who have
benefited mankind.
Dave
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