From: koenraad_elst
Message: 71390
Date: 2013-10-15
Dear Brian (and others who think or have written in the same vein),
You say that, but like a village bumpkin you are talking about things you don't know. To compare two positions and pass judgment on them, you need to know both. Only a handful of people in the world know both the AIT and the OIT argumentation; you are not one of them. And in case you are, I am most interested in reading your detailed refutation of, for instance, Talageri's latest two books.
It is of course very interesting to see how one academic after another passes judgment on a position he doesn't know after having read only a hostile note from the other party on it. I see it vividly verified here: the cocksureness about the AIT really stems from total ignorance about the OIT, in this case wilful ignorance.
Kind regards,
Koenraad Elst
---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:At 4:07:44 AM on Monday, October 14, 2013,
koenraad.elst@... wrote:
> It is a very common fallacy in this debate that theYou’re wrong. You are part of a fringe group comparable to
> pro-AIT party is above the debate. It is not.
the fringe group of scientists who are climate deniers and
the fringe group of scientists who are proponents of
intelligent design and other forms of creationism. In all
three cases members of the fringe try very hard to foster
the notion that there is a real debate between two positions
of equal intellectual merit; there is not, because in each
case the two positions are *not* of equal intellectual
merit.
Brian