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29 Jul 2024 14:23:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Black box  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 23 Dec 2011 22:52:06
Message: <4ef54c66$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/23/2011 10:01 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 23/12/2011 04:12 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Yesterday, I burned my copy of Darwin's Black Box. Just so you know.
>>
>>> I guess I could have just thrown it away. But I was worried that
>>> somebody might, you know, read it...
>
>> The creationist way of thinking seems to be: "Hah. These two examples
>> clearly show that the theory of objects falling down is bollocks. That's
>> enough for me."
>
> "Quod enim mavult homo versus esse id porteous credit."
>
> For what a man wishes to be true, that he more readily believes.
>
Trying to reconstruct it, so not sure I have it right, but here is 
another: "Absurdum est ergo verum est"

Its is absurd, therefor, it is true.

Seems to be the ruling principle of much of creationism, and most of 
religion.


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