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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  09:27:51       
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           	| According to The Panda's Thumb, Bill Dembski is moving from Baylor to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and once again verifying - not that we didn't know this already - that Intelligent Design is all about Christian creationism. |  
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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  09:42:41   [Permalink]           
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| quote:Boy, you people are quick. I thought it might still be another day or two before you caught on to this. In any case, I want to thank you for all your concerns, solicitations, and well-wishes on my new job. I expect I will be providing even more grist for your mill from my new location than from the old.
 
 Keep up the good work,
 Bill Dembski
 
 
 I'm sorry, pal, but I can't wish you good luck in your mission to babble even more nonsense to impressible minds.
 
 P.S.: Pandas have thumbs?
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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  09:56:57   [Permalink]     
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| Pandas do indeed have thumbs of sorts. It's a modified wrist bone that the animal uses as a thumb. Evolution is wonderful, but a little weird.  
 Where Dembski spews his blather matters little. It's all the same, old crap. Also, he makes second-rate barbeque.
  
 
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| Edited by - filthy on 09/21/2004  09:58:52 |  
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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  10:42:34   [Permalink]     
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| Also an excellent book by S J Gould and where I found the Hoarce quote in my signature |  
| "...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
 
 "...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book,  De Morte Peregrini
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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  11:44:47   [Permalink]           
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| Wow, cool. You learn something new everyday. -still in awe at pandas having thumbs- Evolution's too fun. |  
| "Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
 - The Kovenant, Via Negativa
 
 "People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
 -- unknown
 
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|  Posted - 09/21/2004 :  22:00:13   [Permalink]     
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| I'm still irritated that Barnes&Noble puts Dembski's books (along with Behe's) on the SCIENCE shelf in their store. I complain to some hapless employee about it every now and then.....  which is a futile (but amusing) excercise.
 
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