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   From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:51:13 +0100, the following appeared in   
   sci.skeptic, posted by "Cliff Smith"   
   :   
      
   >"Michael Davis"  wrote   
      
   >> The notorious net kook known as Twonky wrote:   
      
   >> > 2:10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden. From there it   
   >divided and became four major   
   >> > rivers.   
      
   >> Rivers don't behave that way. Rivers join together to make bigger   
   >> rivers. They don't split into smaller ones. So in the first line   
   >> you show that your beliefs are simply made up fiction, and very   
   >> bad fiction at that.   
      
   >...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to shoot fish in a barrel.   
      
   That's OK; in his "rebuttal" he "begged to differ" and then   
   wrote that rivers join to make bigger rivers, using the   
   Tigris and Euphrates as an example. I wonder what "differ"   
   might mean in TwonkyWorld...   
      
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   Bob C.   
      
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