Re: consequences of skepticism of evolution theory

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT), calvin <crice5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in talk.origins:

On Oct 2, 12:50 pm, Garamond Lethe <cartographi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...
You're thinking like a newbie programmer, which surprises me since
you've had at least a little formal training in statistics.
...

Ironic, since my career (1962-2000) was programming
(applications and systems) on mainframe computers.
Of course during at least half of that period I was using
desktop computers to do the mainframe work.

I had only one 3-hour statistics course, for one quarter,
and all I remember is standard deviation, which everybody
knows. But I still have the book 'Statistics - An Introduction'
by D.A.S. Fraser (1958), and my notes.

Actually, I'm thinking like someone who has such a profound
distrust for liberals that I want to fight whatever they say and
do, to such an extent that I flail around, irrationally grasping
at anything available with which to challenge them, whether
the challenge holds up for longer than five minutes or not.
If we were discussing some other science like, say,
astronomy, or engineering wonders like the unmanned
space program, I think you would find the way I think quite
acceptable, being free from political aversions.

You'll have to define what 'liberal' means to you and then explain what
rational, logical reasons have persuaded you to be a knee-jerk opponent
of everything they propose?

Do you think people should die because they cannot afford health care?

Do you think people should die because they are unable to get a job?

Do you think people in poor countries should die because people in rich
countries are too selfish to care whether they destroy the environment
of the poor countries?

Do you have a shred of evidence that the climate-deniers are actually
paying any attention to any of the science involved?

Are you a birther, too?

.

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