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In the course of searching for something else, I just ran across this old post, that I'd never seen before, in which I was astonished to read:
This brings me to Rand Simberg, a smart guy that is a big supporter of ID (that’s slang for Intelligent Design).
Apparently, he somehow infers that I'm a supporter of ID because I believe that science is a method of achieving knowledge, rather than a compendium of facts. But I don't see how anyone could have read that post, or any other that I've written on the subject, and think that I support ID in any way, let alone a "big" one.
Posted by Rand Simberg at December 23, 2006 12:51 PM
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maybe it's that unthinking support for GWB
you evince.
Posted by anonymous at December 23, 2006 02:21 PM
Anonymous Jew Hater,
Perhaps you have this Rand Simberg confused with the other Rand Simberg.
If I can show proof of his criticism of a Bush policy, will you either go away or self-euthanize?
Posted by Mike Puckett at December 23, 2006 03:29 PM
It's going to be hard to eat your Christmas dinner with somebody putting words in your mouth.
Posted by Steve at December 23, 2006 03:46 PM
RETARD! I think is the term.
There is no way you have ever been a proponent of ID, you simply make statements about the nature of science, without making final conclusions.
Just as you described, science is an endeavour, not an absolutism of fact.
Posted by Wickedpinto at December 23, 2006 04:39 PM
Rand,
I'm not going to try to find our email correspondence on this, but, you did do a post several years ago which could be interpreted as support for ID.
Your vehement denial of this in an email to me forever confirmed to me that this is something beyond the pale for you.
So, with several years of blog posts since then some idiot still thinks this is something you'd support?
What, he reads you every three years or so?
Mike
Posted by Mike Daley at December 23, 2006 07:35 PM
I'm not going to try to find our email correspondence on this, but, you did do a post several years ago which could be interpreted as support for ID.
Uh huh. Sure he did.
Posted by Paul Dietz at December 23, 2006 10:42 PM
I glanced at that site. Reading it was like listening to nails across a chalkboard. That perfect combination of arrogance and condescension or was it ignorance and stupidity?
Posted by Bill Maron at December 24, 2006 08:13 AM
you did do a post several years ago which could be interpreted as support for ID.
Misinterpretation by the reader is the reader's problem.
Posted by McGehee at December 24, 2006 08:27 AM
As we see, misinterpretation by the reader also becomes the author's problem.
Posted by Karl Hallowell at December 24, 2006 10:25 AM
Perhaps I should have said "fault," but that sounds so <shudder> judgmental.
Posted by McGehee at December 25, 2006 08:34 AM
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