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

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 preg

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-ter

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.

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

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'

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: > .

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 religio

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

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 e

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

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 n

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

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 supe

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 > ma

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 esse

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 creati

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. C

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 >> s

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

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 >

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 any

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 Blo

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

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 w

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.