Re: An idle question (Paging Mark Isaak)

In message <1188958718.124609.312080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, J.LyonLayden <JosephLayden@xxxxxxxxx> writes

You might like to check what you've written in this thread. The above is
not a particularly accurate summary thereof. (For a start you were
claiming 70% of species went extinct in a particular narrow time span.)


Details, details. i am not used to such an anal retentive type of
discussion. I simply misrembered. Misremembering one small point does
not destroy the general theory of my assertions.

Your inability to substantiate your assertions, and the overall trend of inaccuracy, mean that the general theory of your assertions is unconvincing.

As for your opinion that accuracy is optional in discussions of fact, that does wonders for your credibility.

If we want to write fiction about a prehistoric world that never existed, go ahead and do it. (The non-existence didn't stop Julian May or Jean Auel or Robert E. Howard.) The fantasy readership won't mind; they're more likely to object to you claiming that it's real.
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alias Ernest Major

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