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- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!qiclab!nosun!hilbert!max
- From: max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.153626.20087@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:36:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hilbert.1992Aug13.153626.20087
- References: <713649613.F00001@csource.oz.au>
- Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Northwest, Beaverton Oregon
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- In article <713649613.F00001@csource.oz.au> joe@csource.oz.au (Joe Slater) writes:
- >Really, Bob, do you think the people contemporary with the Bible who *ate* these
- >insects were incapable of counting? Do you think nobody sat down and noticed
- >that insects tend to have six legs? In any event, it seems a very accurate
- >description: they go on all fours, and they have jointed "legs"
- >above their "feet"; that is, they have a pair of limbs above the ones on which
- >they stand.
- >
- >jds
- > * Origin: Come up to the lab... and see what's on the slab! (3:632/351)
-
- ALL fours, means all four legs. The walk and stand on all SIX legs. How do I
- know they were calling the two large legs 'legs'? Simple: those are
- the jointed legs above their feet - they are DESCRIBED as legs. The other
- two pairs are identical - it is implausible to describe one or the
- other pair as 'not being legs'.
-
- Nice try.
-