Re: Hindu noise-makers, Elst and OIT -- a review of book by Harald

---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 the
> pro-AIT party is above the debate. It is not.

You’re wrong. You are part of a fringe group comparable to
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
>
I might come from the "fringe", but I'm fed up with the OIT stuff, although not much more than the classical genealogical tree model as being representative of language relationships. On the other hand, truth can't be decided by majority vote.