In talk.origins I read this message from Eric Gill
<ericvgill@yahoo.com>:
>"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:buttes$csv$0@pita.alt.net:
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>> "Ineedmoney" <mail@atmycomputer.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:butqab$a2v$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
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>>> "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
>>>
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>> Sure.
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>You obviously meant "no," from the rest of your message. FYI.
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>> 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.
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>Ah. So, of course, that leaves you free to make something up.
>
>God-of-the-gaps is not an argument, Professor Nebbish.
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>> 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,
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>Wrong?
>
>How about "baseless"?
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>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.
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>From you, Petseleh? After that drek?
>
>What value might that have to anyone who values honesty?
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>> 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.
Perhaps you are not aware that there is a large body of
distinguished literature in Yiddish. You may know some of the
better known names, including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Sholom
Aleichem. I recommend "Yiddish Literature: Its Scope and Major
Writers" by Charles Madison (a book in my own personal library).
While there are no Klezmer symphonies, there is certainly a great
deal of good music in the genre, both traditional and modern.
Perhaps you could become familiar yourself with some of it.
Susan Silberstein
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