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from: Jim McGinn
date: 2002-11-21 00:01:00
subject: Re: Changing the language

Mohammed,

Excellent post.  You have the right idea.  The problems of
evolutionary theory are hidden inside the language of evolutionary
theory.

I noticed the same thing about fifteen years ago.  So I set out to
revise it, to get rid of the emotive language.  What I found was that
the problems are more numerous and run much deeper than I had ever
imagined they could be.  But I was able work it all out.

But the hardest part of all is selling it.  Most people, including
those that call themselves scientists, did not arrive at their current
understanding of evolutionary theory by way of reason but by emotion. 
My experiences on this NG have brought me to the realization that you
can't reason somebody out of a position which they did not employ
reason to arrive at originally.

Jim
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