Re: Quote Mine: "A circular argument arises" - Kemp

From: Harlequin (usenet_at_cox.net)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:50:29 +0000 (UTC)

Augray <augray@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:v4p3k09t00orisfgdqtkfjmqg7t8oohe5k@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:41:35 +0000 (UTC), Harlequin <usenet@cox.net>
> wrote in news:<bozotic-Xns955FB4124AAF8usenet123mmcablecom@68.12.19.6>:
>
>> [quote]
>> TOM KEMP, Oxford, "A circular argument arises: Interpret the fossil
>> record in the terms of a particular theory of evolution, inspect the
>> interpretation, and note that it confirms the theory. Well, it would,
>> wouldn't it?" New Scientist, Vol.108, Dec.5, 1985, p. 67
>> [/quote]
>> http://www.creationapologetics.org/refuting/quotes.html
>
> http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-2.html#quote33
>
> [snip]

I forgot that that one was already in. But then again the
creationists I cited on this one where using it in a completely
different false context. 

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