Re: Polynesian canoes (Re: Rat genes

From: benlizross (benlizro_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:13:46 +1200

Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> benlizross wrote:
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> > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> > > benlizross wrote:
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> > > > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> > > > > benlizross wrote:
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> > > > > > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> > > > > > > benlizross wrote
> > > > > > > in article <41041CA5.283B@ihug.co.nz>:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > benlizross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message news:<4100441E.11F6@ihug.co.nz>...
> > > > > > > > > > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > I was only asking you to back up some of your claims, but
> > > > > > > > > > > perhaps this was asking too much...
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Your demand for "specifics" was a demand to replay several years of
> > > > > > > > > > discussion on this group, since you like to pretend that no such
> > > > > > > > > > examination of particular points of Heyerdahl's theory has taken place.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Yes, some examination did take place.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The question is about the results of this examination.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Well, for most people the results could be summed up as: Heyerdahl was
> > > > > > > > wrong. But I don't see any point in pursuing a discussion on that level
> > > > > > > > of generality.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Nobody else is interested in going over all that stuff again. If you
> > > > > > > > > > have a particular point which has not been previously discussed, or on
> > > > > > > > > > which you have some new evidence, feel free to bring it up.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Ross Clark
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > You keep making vague allegations about some discredited stuff in
> > > > > > > > > Heyerdahl, but you are always short on specifics.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > How about a specific example of a vague allegation?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Ross Clark
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > There's an explicit allegation above, but still
> > > > > > > unsubstantiated...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So instead of substantial arguments, we are going to play "hunt the
> > > > > > allegation", are we? This is someone who repeatedly abuses others for
> > > > > > "childish word games". Yuri, when _you_ quote my allegation, or better
> > > > > > when _you_ have something particular you want to discuss, I'm ready.
> > > > > > Otherwise, I have better things to do.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ross Clark
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like you to explain in what way Heyerdahl "was
> > > > > wrong".
> > > >
> > > > You've forgotten? I'm sure it will all come back to you if I say: The
> > > > Polynesians did not come from Peru. Nor did they come from British
> > > > Columbia.
> > >
> > > I would like to see some specifics please.
> >
> > Yawn. What is this, the third or the fourth time we have come around
> > this way in the last few weeks?
> > Try to pay attention this time:
> > - There are _lots_ of specifics discussed in the records of sci.arch,
> > which you are free to browse.
> > - If you have a _particular_ point that you want to discuss, which has
> > not previously been discussed, or on which you have some new evidence,
> > then all you have to do is tell us about it.
>
> I think in plain English this is called stonewalling...

No, Yuri, as usual, you have no idea how such terms are used.
It's called trying to avoid endless, senseless repetition of the same
arguments.

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> > > > > You've made the claim, so it's up to you to back it up.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is he wrong about this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Easter Island Images
> > > > > http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku
> > > >
> > > > Oh dear, the icons again. Yuri, "this" appears to be one of your web
> > > > pages with several photographs and quite a bit of text by Yu. Kuchinsky.
> > > > How can such an assemblage be "right" or "wrong"? Would you please make
> > > > the effort to focus on one particular proposition? Then maybe I can give
> > > > you an answer.
> > > >
> > > > Ross Clark
> > >
> > > This is called archaeology. If you don't like archaeology,
> > > what are you doing in sci.arch?
> >
> > If you think your web pages are "archaeology", perhaps you are on the
> > wrong newsgroup.
> > In any case you've ignored my point. Read the above paragraph again.
> >
> > Ross Clark
>
> Hmm... my website actually features real archaeological
> sites, artifacts, and some actual archaeologists digging in
> the dirt.
>
> But I guess in the Alice-in-Wonderland World of Dr. Clark
> this ain't archaeology!

Well, no, cutting and pasting pictures of archaeology into some kind of
personal scrapbook is not archaeology.
But I'll say again (third time? fourth time? tenth time?): If you have a
particular point that hasn't been discussed before, let's hear about it.

Ross Clark

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