Re: The Creationist Agenda of Marius "alexandru_mg3" (was Re: BREAKI

On 2009-11-16 22:43, george knysh wrote:

> It would help if Piotr would also declare that cybalist moderators are
> against evolutionist nonsense as much as against creationist nonsense.

Neither "evolutionist" nor "creationist" ideas are relevant to Cybalist
discussions. As an aside: I'm not sure what you understand by
"evolutionist nonsense". It's usually proponents of Intelligent Design
or some form of Biblical Creationism who call mainstream biologists
"evolutionists" to create the impression that the rejection of
supernatural explanations in biology is some sort of "political" rather
than methodological choice. But this is a place to discuss historical
linguistics and whatever has to do with it, not biology or theology.

> It's actually better to avoid these issues altogether since they are
> irrelevant to the smaller problems we discuss here.

Exactly.

> Such as: the thesis that "Romanians are Romanized Dacians" is
> unprovable, but the notion that "some Romanians are Romanized Dacians"
> is defensible.

I think the latter view is uncontroversial and practically uncontested.

Piotr