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Re: The truth of evolution
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:36:21 -0800 (PST)
On 27 Feb, 14:38, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> As long a syou realise that 'out there' is only a useful fiction.
I would prefer to say it is a fundamental belief which is based on a
considerable amount of evidence.
> Freedom and equality could have no meaning without human beings to
> experience ...
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Re: The truth of evolution
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:25:38 -0600
Paul Grieg wrote:
>What is postmodern thought? Rorty makes a telling
> point, I think, in his last essay in PSH that there
> are so many definitions of post- modernism that the
> term should be dropped. (Although he then goes on
> to define the term himself and use it. You can see
> why's famous for irony!)
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Re: The truth of evolution
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:38:05 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 26, 8:54?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26 Feb, 15:37, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > But we may be getting totally the wrong picture -- e.g. thinking that
> > reality is a snake rather than an elephant. So it's best not tosay
> > 'reality is something like a snake', ...
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Re: The truth of evolution
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:54:26 -0800 (PST)
On 26 Feb, 15:37, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But we may be getting totally the wrong picture -- e.g. thinking that
> reality is a snake rather than an elephant. So it's best not tosay
> 'reality is something like a snake', because we will look silly when
> we get the bigger pu=icture. This would be l ...
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Re: The truth of evolution
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:37:12 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 25, 8:44?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 Feb, 12:44, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
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> > Remember the story of the blind men and the elephant? Blind man #1
> > feels the trunk and says "the world is like a long thin thing". Blind
> > man #1 feels the rear end and s ...
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Light-touch regulation
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:18:14 -0800 (PST)
I find Lord Turner's comments on the current banking crisis credible.
Apparently the FSA staff are getting bonuses !
Light touch philosophy blamed for FSA failure
Simon Lambert,
This is Money
25 February 2009
The City watchdog has blamed its failure to halt the collapse of five
of the ten biggest UK banks ...
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Re: The truth of evolution
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:44:41 -0800 (PST)
On 25 Feb, 12:44, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Remember the story of the blind men and the elephant? Blind man #1
> feels the trunk and says "the world is like a long thin thing". Blind
> man #1 feels the rear end and says "the world is like a large round
> thing." So how can they determine the one wa ...
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Re: The truth of evolution
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:44:05 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 20, 10:04?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Feb, 12:27, Paul Grieg <pgr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On 19 Feb, 22:56, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Am I not part of the external world for you?
> > I assume you are. But who knows?
>
> > You could be a "Se ...
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Gordon Bean is the most amazing arse
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:41:02 -0800 (PST)
We've known that Phony Tony is a dangrously stupid arse for a long
time, as we've known it about Gordon Bean, who has been lucky, until
recently, to have been an arse kept where it should be, in Phony's
trousers. Now the areshole is here for all to see it gets worse and
worse, why on earth doesn't somebody get rid ...
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Trendy vicar with a nasty bias
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:39:43 -0800 (PST)
Peter Owen Jones made an unjustified attack on atheism in the last of
his serious "Around the World in 80 Faiths". See:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hs756/Around_the_World_in_80_Faiths_Europe/
Starting at about 25 minutes.
He says the rebuilding of a church was a "victory over evil... a
victory ...
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