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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Subject: Re: margaritas ante procos -- on the rocks, please
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:26:31 EDT
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I agree with Mark Fishman that it's frequently a waste of time arguing to
try to convince creationists otherwise, for exactly the reasons he cited.

However, I don't argue with them in the hope of coverting them.  I argue for
the sake of the others who read the file: those who don't know the distinction
between science and creationism, and those who don't happen to know specific
rebuttals of particular creationist fallacies of argument.  It's important to
help both those groups for at least two reasons: to keep them out of the
creationist camp, and to enable them to effectively oppose creationist activism.

Mike Huybensz		...mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh