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Subject: Re: Any Puter Experts That Can Help
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Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<xbSwQOAw01LAFw1e@meden.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <c0mf0v$68j$0@pita.alt.net>, Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com>
> writes
> >
> >news:slrnc2sssa.1io.mightymartianca@namibia.tandem...
> >> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:59:49 +0000 (UTC),
> >> Uncle Davey <noway@jose.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > news:Xns948F4F24DC44Ccheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.84...
> >> >> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
> >> >> > news:Xns948ECE477BED3cheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.85...
> >> >> >> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> [etc.]
> >> >> >> > He said "Alexey, you didn't translate what I said". To which the
> >> >> >> > translator said. "No, I translated what you OUGHT to have said."
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Sometimes good translation is like that.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> That is not good translation. That is lying.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> > It's normal translation.
> >> >>
> >> >> Changing someone's words to say the opposite of what they meant is
> normal
> >> >> translation? No wonder I can't believe anything fundies say.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sue
> >> >> --
> >> >> "It's not smart or correct, but it's one of the things that
> >> >> make us what we are." - Red Green
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Who changed words?
> >> >
> >> > Jason simply left the good bits of Darwin in and left the bad bits out.
> >>
> >> Jason didn't do anything. He isn't bright enough to quote mine as well as
> >> Johnson did. Johnson is a deceiver, Jason is a spreader of deceit, and
> you
> >> are a defender of deceivers.
> >
> >Because who you call deceivers are actually spreading truth, and you guys
> >are having a pathetic nitpick at the methodology.
> >
> >Uncle Davey
> >
> If they are spreading the truth, why do they need to clothe it in a
> cloak of lies?
>
> The use of bad arguments and falsehoods to support a position promotes
> the impression that there are no good arguments for that position, i.e.
> that it is false, or at least unevidenced.
That is most certainly part of the problems created by using bad
arguments and falsehoods AND it has those detrimental effects whether
the individuals using those bad arguments and falsehoods actually
believe those claims to be true or use them knowing that they are
false. In other words, repeating a lie does do damage whether or not
the person doing the repeating knows it to be a lie; it is only the
moral issue of whether that person is a liar that depends on that
person's knowledge that it is a lie.
Which brings us to the deeper issue this raises. If they believe
their false claims to be true, then they would act accordingly and
present them with enough confidence to discuss them and support them
and to examine the evidence about them. OTOH, if they know that their
claims are false, then they will act accordingly and use whatever
devious means they can to AVOID support or discuss their claim or the
pertinent evidence.
Do we witness the former or the latter? There are a few instances of
the former, but they don't last long as they soon discover how false
their claims are (I'm sure that many ex-YECs started that way -- I
know of one from my CompuServe days who started out strongly pro-YEC
but who was also willing to examine the evidence; within one year he
was arguing AGAINST YEC). A notable example was Whorlibird who
claimed that men have one less rib than women and did try to stick to
it; it certainly appeared that he actually believed that claim to be
true.
The vast majority of creationists we encounter exhibit the latter
behavior, that of trying to avoid supporting their claims. This sends
out the message that they are lying, because it is obvious that they
KNOW that their claims are false and yet they continue to make them.
And as "true Christians", they are also sending out the message that
"true Christianity" is based on lies, deception, and hypocrisy (since
they claim to have and follow absolute moral standards which,
ironically, forbid the kinds of lies and deception that they
practice).
So their use of falsehoods to support their position not only promotes
the impression that there are no good arguments for that position,
i.e. that it is false, or at least unevidenced, but it also condemns
their avowed religion, Christianity, as being morally and ethically
bankrupt and the last possible choice of anyone who values morality.
PS
Years ago in a presentation given by a devout practicing Christian, on
the subject of "creation science" he proclaimed: "The truth NEVER
needs to be upheld by a lie!"
Amen, brother!
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