Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Denial and obfuscation switch scam junk Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 05:27:15 -0400 Organization: What are you looking for? Lines: 28 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <1007r2p$3s2j2$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="41715"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id E1E3122978C; Tue, 20 May 2025 05:27:21 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF5FD229783 for ; Tue, 20 May 2025 05:27:19 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.98) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1uHJFm-000000030j4-3BQP; Tue, 20 May 2025 11:27:18 +0200 by nntpmail01.iad.omicronmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C323E17CD for ; Tue, 20 May 2025 09:27:16 +0000 (UTC) id E549921C0193; Tue, 20 May 2025 09:27:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Path: fx18.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:27:15 UTC Bytes: 2908 On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:23:43 -0700, Bob Casanova wrote: >On Tue, 20 May 2025 03:48:43 +0200, the following appeared >in talk.origins, posted by IDentity : > >>On Fri, 16 May 2025 12:02:15 -0500, RonO >>wrote: >> >>>https://evolutionnews.org/ >> >>"Nothing in biology has a purpose." >> >>Well, I know someone who would like to buy your kidneys and your liver >>if you don't use them anyway... >> >Yeah, yeah; cute twist. However, anyone with more than two >neurons to rub together knows that in this context "purpose" >doesn't mean "function", but "intentional design". I'm >fairly sure his body parts, like everyone's, have the usual >functions. Redefining "purpose" the way you describe is exactly what IDists and Creationists do. --=20 To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge