"Eric Gill" <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:buttes$csv$0@pita.alt.net:
>
> >
> > "Ineedmoney" <mail@atmycomputer.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:butqab$a2v$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >>
> >> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> >> news:butoq1$4hq$0@pita.alt.net...
> >> >
> >> > "Cheezits" <cheezits32@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:Xns947A4B5CBF133cheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.83...
> >> > > laurieappieton@aol.com (LaurieAppIeton) won't even try to defend
> >> > > this nonsense, but let's have some fun with it anyway:
> >> > > > 1) no natural process which resulted in information forming
> >> > > > automatically in matter, has ever been observed;
> >> > >
> >> > > No act of divine creation has ever been observed.
> >> >
> >> > Oh yes it has, Sue. When God confounded the languages at Babel,
> >> > humanity
> >> was
> >> > able to observe it. That's why we were scattered all over the
> >> > earth, and
> >> we
> >> > speak languages whose families cannot possibly have a common
> >> > ancestor.
> >>
> >> Any evidence of that outside the Bible, shmuck?
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >
> > Sure.
>
> You obviously meant "no," from the rest of your message. FYI.
>
> > All the evidence of a lack of common ancestor between the various
> > language families lies in the fact that in the nearly two hundred
> > years of sensible study of philology that we have had, no-one has been
> > able to posit one.
> >
> > Or even give a reasonable envisaging of one.
>
> Ah. So, of course, that leaves you free to make something up.
>
> God-of-the-gaps is not an argument, Professor Nebbish.
>
> > So, if you would like to say that it's wrong, then kindly show me what
> > the common ancestor language could have looked like between, say,
> > Finno-Ugric and Indo-European,
>
> Wrong?
>
> How about "baseless"?
>
> You, ah, *do* understand the term, right?
>
> > and kindly leave my genitalia out of
> > this discussion if you want to continue to be treated with respect.
>
> From you, Petseleh? After that drek?
>
> What value might that have to anyone who values honesty?
>
> > There are many more elevated uses of Yiddish phraseology.
>
> Yes, we're all fans of the mighty Yiddish epics in literature. They are
> right up there with the bombastic Klezmer symphonies.
>
Less of the anti-semitism.
Uncle Davey
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