The problem of Cthulhu

Batrinque at aol.com · 21 Jun 2007, 01:46 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: Batrinque at aol.com (Batrinque at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:46:27 EDT
Subject: (urth) The problem of Cthulhu
Message-ID: <c5c.14e5114f.33ab3273 at aol.com>

In a message dated 6/20/2007 9:40:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
brunians at brunians.org writes:

The  debate is mostly academics swearing at each other and
denigrating each  other's evidence, as near as I can tell.

The problem, of course, with arguing on the basis of skull shape and such  is 
that it is rather too easy for subjectivity to creep in.   It would  be nice 
to have something firmer in hand.  

Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT

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