Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-09-01 Thread Charlie Bell
On 01/09/2008, at 10:32 AM, David Hobby wrote: No, it's the honest terminology. Abortion kills children, very young children who can't survive outside the womb, and who wouldn't count as human at all except for their human DNA. They're not children yet! Children have *been born*. Late-term

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-09-01 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:47 PM, William T Goodall wrote: So does celibacy. So not breeding as fruitfully as possible is murdering children? I think that would be a fairly extreme interpretation. However .. there's a lot to be said against the logic of unilaterally equating terminating a

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-09-01 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Sep 1, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Charlie Bell wrote: Late-term abortion kills the unborn at a time when they're likely to survive (except in cases where the abortion is because they won't and they'll probably kill the mother in the process), and is something I strongly oppose (because adoption is

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-31 Thread David Hobby
(Sorry about the titles. I just replied about Sarah Palin in the Honest Terminology thread, and in the Sarah Palin thread, I'm talking about honest terminology.) William T Goodall wrote: On 30 Aug 2008, at 04:54, David Hobby wrote: ... William-- I truly admire the subtlety with which you

Abortion (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: No, it's the honest terminology. Abortion kills children, very young children who can't survive outside the womb, and who wouldn't count as human at all except for their human DNA. Now this happens to be the same term adopted by some religious

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: (Sorry about the titles. I just replied about Sarah Palin in the Honest Terminology thread, and in the Sarah Palin thread, I'm talking about honest terminology.) William T Goodall wrote: On 30 Aug 2008, at 04:54, David Hobby wrote: ...

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-31 Thread David Hobby
William T Goodall wrote: On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: ... William-- No, it's the honest terminology. Abortion kills children, very young children who can't survive outside the womb, and who wouldn't count as human at all except for their human DNA. No it doesn't. Children

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 1 Sep 2008, at 02:32, David Hobby wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: ... If you start counting zygotes as children then IUDs and morning after pills are infanticide. That's just wackjob wingnut daft. Well, they are preventing things from

Re: Abortion (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:16 PM Sunday 8/31/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: No, it's the honest terminology. Abortion kills children, very young children who can't survive outside the womb, and who wouldn't count as human at all except for their human DNA. Now

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 04:54, David Hobby wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Sarah Palin ... Vice President ... She's a crazy person. With four kids already, and at an age when the risk of fetal abnormalities is massively escalated, she gets pregnant again and when the tests show it has Down

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 03:54, William T Goodall wrote: She's a crazy person. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/mccains-vp-want.html Told you Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog :

RE: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Gary Nunn
McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/mccains-vp-want.html Told you Maru William T Goodall I'm reading that blog entry a little different. She appears to be advocating to allow the debate and discussion of both. I didn't read anything

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Charlie Bell
On 31/08/2008, at 12:50 AM, Gary Nunn wrote: McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/mccains-vp-want.html Told you Maru William T Goodall I'm reading that blog entry a little different. She appears to be advocating to allow the

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I would want it to be taught as an equal alternative, but she's right, a healthy (and controlled) debate about a socially sensitive subject could be a healthy and useful life skill to develop. People could

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 16:19, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I would want it to be taught as an equal alternative, but she's right, a healthy (and controlled) debate about a socially sensitive subject could be a

RE: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Gary Nunn
Not in school, and not in science class. In comparative religion, maybe, but it's hard enough to teach good science without adding a load of creation myths to the course. I agree, not is science class, and I did specifically say that it shouldn't be taught as an equal alternative.

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
William T Goodall wrote: That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system to promote their superstitious pernicious garbage. When it's split between crazy creationists in one side and mass murdering atheist baby killers on the other side, I think I side with the

Debate (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:32 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: People could use that skill in on-line discussions! That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system to promote their superstitious pernicious garbage. Much more than that. The essence of

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 17:10, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: William T Goodall wrote: That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system to promote their superstitious pernicious garbage. When it's split between crazy creationists in one side and mass murdering

Re: Debate (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 17:13, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:32 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People could use that skill in on-line discussions! That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system to promote their superstitious

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 30, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Gary Nunn wrote: McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/mccains-vp-want.html Told you Maru William T Goodall I'm reading that blog entry a little different. She appears to be advocating to allow the debate

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 30, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Charlie Bell wrote: I don't think I would want it to be taught as an equal alternative, but she's right, a healthy (and controlled) debate about a socially sensitive subject could be a healthy and useful life skill to develop. Not in school, and not in science

Re: Debate (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:43 AM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: And there are people who know that they will lose a reasonable debate and therefore deliberately sabotage reasonable debate by using lies and illogic and any other dirty tricks they can come up with instead of

Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann
Considering the fact that McCain just announced his VP running mate today, it's interesting that there are domain names associating Sarah Palin with Vice President registered back in June 2008. The domain name VicePresidentSarahPalin.com was registered on June 14, 2008. Nothing illegal or

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-30 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: or the right to lifers started lobbying for her back then... jon Not entirely inconceivable, that. She doesn't have the somewhat negative name recognition that Lieberman or Huckabee have, which (at least temporarily) dodges some of the

Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-29 Thread Gary Nunn
Considering the fact that McCain just announced his VP running mate today, it's interesting that there are domain names associating Sarah Palin with Vice President registered back in June 2008. The domain name VicePresidentSarahPalin.com was registered on June 14, 2008. Nothing illegal or

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-29 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2008, at 02:36, Gary Nunn wrote: Considering the fact that McCain just announced his VP running mate today, it's interesting that there are domain names associating Sarah Palin with Vice President registered back in June 2008. The domain name VicePresidentSarahPalin.com was

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

2008-08-29 Thread David Hobby
William T Goodall wrote: Sarah Palin ... Vice President ... She's a crazy person. With four kids already, and at an age when the risk of fetal abnormalities is massively escalated, she gets pregnant again and when the tests show it has Down Syndrome she doesn't abort. She's wealthy