Dale: I thought long and hard before talking about the elephant in the room. I've watched several mailing lists blow up and die from threads similar to this. But the original post was in response to a politician's actions, Kim's first post mentioned political action. But there was no 'kill the thread' post then. So since I spelled out the R in Chris Buttars (R, South Jordan) and pointed out some inconsistencies in the R positions the topic is now to be 'killed'? 'Intelligent design' is a political movement, not a scientific one. And it needs to be debated in political circles as well as scientific ones. Bill B. On Aug 9, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Dale Hooper wrote:
While I think we could have a lively debate about what each party stands for (or doesn't stand for <g>), who forms the base of each party, what are the dis/merits of the Kyoto treaty, etc., etc. -- I don't think this is the proper forum. I think this sub-thread pushes things past the boundary of where we can go and remain civil on this list.
So, you are entitled to your personal political philosophy - but I hope that we can kill this sub-thread before this whole thing turns into a political argument.
Clear skies, Dale.
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