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----- Original Message -----
From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
| At the risk of annoying all of those who don't like pedantic intellectual
| smokescreens, I'd say this was an issue about what one means by the term
| evolution.
Vincent, sorry if my last post seemed just to be a sarcstic swipe at your
good self, it wasn't! I'm mearly a member of the great uneducated, lucky
enough to be reading the academic debate, of many great minds.
However during most of the 'mystic' 'experience' and 'belief' debate I
failed to notice any approach to the 'abstract qualities' required for such
word usage, and the 'academic style' seemed to be more about winning
'brownie points' than learning.
It helped my realise what a powerful meme 'academia' is!
----Austin Docking Twickenham, UK www.docking.org.uk I got stoned last night - told a Palestinian that the West Bank belongs to Israel.
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