for Conspirator

Excepting the opening and closing, this post's strong objective focus is very helpful and informative, especially the excerpts.It might make sense for you to delete this thread and repost this in response to Conspirator's original thread.--Percy

It is not an uncommon event here for someone to take a list of questions they find somewhere and post them (though usually with attribution). But one of the problems with responding to these questions is that since the person didn't compose the questions himself there is no way to know if he understands the questions, or even agrees with all of them. You often find that the questions posted represent views that the person posting them is ill-equipped to defend. The whole approach is indicative of intellectual laziness combined with unfamiliarity with the details of the topic.--Percy

Sorry, you're right, I didn't mean to discourage anyone from responding. But it *does* help to keep in mind the possibility that the person for whom the effort of a detailed reply is being made doesn't care about the actually science and isn't interested in understanding the issues, but is simply upset by the threat of evolution and is lashing out. And even when that does turn out to be the case, an informed response may prove very helpful to others.--Percy[This message has been edited by Percipient, 12-06-2002]