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I see that you don't know what your talking re. This is an evasion, not even a stupid response.
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Ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer.
And you are a fine one to talk; you have been evading at least three challenges of mine for days. Here is an earleir comment of mine:
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You demand answers of me, but you refuse to respond to any of mine -- for example, we still await a clear explanation of the term 'dialectical contradiction', just as we await your refutation of my proof that dialectics cannot explain change, and your acknowledgement that you have confused 'verifiable' with 'verified'.
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http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.p...5&postcount=67
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It explains it to my satisfaction, too bad you just don't like the explanation.
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This reminds me of the Scopes trial in 1925 when William Jennings Bryan was put on the stand by Clarence Darrow, and was masked a series of unanswerable questions about the Bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
Bryan simply refused to reply, and told Darrow that the Bible was good enough for him, and he was quite happy with its explanation of creation.
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But there is also an embarrassing side to Bryan: the ‘great commoner’ was a Bible-banging fundamentalist. When officials in Dayton, Tennessee decided to roast John Scopes for teaching evolution in 1925, they called in the ageing Bryan to prosecute. The week-long trial became a national sensation and reached its climax when the defence attorney, Clarence Darrow, called Bryan to the stand and eviscerated his Biblical verities. ‘Do you believe Joshua made the sun stand still?’ Darrow asked sarcastically. ‘Do you believe a whale swallowed Jonah? Will you tell us the exact date of the great flood?’ Bryan tried to swat away the swarm of contradictions. ‘I do not think about things I don’t think about,’ he said. The New York Times called it an ‘absurdly pathetic performance’, reducing a famous American to the ‘butt of a crowd’s rude laughter’. This paunchy, sweaty figure went down as an icon of the cranky right. Today, most Americans encounter the Scopes trial and Bryan himself in a play called Inherit the Wind. I once played the role of Bryan and the director kept saying: ‘More pompous, Morone. Make him more pompous.’
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n04/moro01_.html
You are just as dogmatic and closed-minded. A simple faith is OK for you, even though I have ripped your core theory to shreads.
You are indeed the William Jennings Bryan of RevLeft.