"JaBrIoL" <Jabriol@excite.com> wrote in message
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> "Zachriel" <angel@zachriel.com> wrote in message
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> > "Frank Reichenbacher" <frank@bio-con.com> wrote in message
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> > >
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> > > Sagan was an astronomer. Would you take your car to a hair dresser to
fix
> >  an
> > > oil leak?
> >
> > Well, even a hair dresser shouldn't be quoted out-of-context. There's a
> > semi-colon after the phrase "Great Designer", not a period.
> >
> > "The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great
Designer;
> > perhaps some species are destroyed when the Designer becomes
dissatisfied
> > with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. But
this
> > notion is a little disconcerting. Each plant and animal is exquisitely
made;
> > should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the
> > intended variety from the start?" -- Cosmos
> >
> > Sagan is obviously making a rhetorical argument *against* the common
> > conceptions of a Great Designer in regards to biological evolution.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Frank
> >
>
>
> Sagan was falling into: "why did god not make everything perfect"
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And that somehow excuses you quoting him out of context? (Which you snipped,
of course.)