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- From: gascan@dcst16.dc (Bill Gascoyne)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Inconsistency in the bible
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.181404.12044@lsil.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:14:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.051200.23995@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- In article 23995@uniwa.uwa.edu.au, diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
- >
- >Consequently things like "7 pairs/1 pair" "Raven/Dove" "Creation1/
- >Creation2" simply don't matter, except to the most mindless of
- >fundementalists.
-
- The most mindless of fundamentalists are exaclty the most dangerous types, especially
- when mobilized by someone a little more savvy and diabolical. It is the effect of
- exactly those sorts of followers that skepticism seeks to counter. Getting them to
- think may be a huge task, but it's not completely hopeless.
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- 1. Bill Gascoyne
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