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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: POSSIBLE GATEWAY: FROM AFRICA TO EUROPE
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:33:41 -0700
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Shawn Potter wrote:
> "Todd A. Farmerie" <> wrote in message news:<>...
>
>>If you find fault with my comparison, you need to do more than
>>just say "how dare you" and call me a hypocrite. You need to
>>present some argument whereby the pedigree is dissimilar to the
>>others to which I compared it, and/or you need to come up with
>>some evidence that predates 300 AD that supports the descent.
>>Short of that, then the comparison and the conclusion to which it
>>must lead must stand.
>
> I have no responsibility to help you prove your point.

I am not asking you to prove my point, I am asking you to make yours. I
am asking you to be specific in your criticisms and actually address
what I put forward if you are going to call me a hypocrite.

> If you and
> others believe your declaration is true, perhaps it "must stand."

If you believe it is false, then perhaps you might address it, laying
bare all of its many flaws. How does this pedigree claim differ from
the similar false ones, such that it should be believed? What is
erroneous about the Munro-Hay quotation?


taf

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