On Thu, 8 May 1997, Damon Casale wrote:

It's difficult to communicate about an
automobile in one of these primitive languages, but it's not impossible.
In these "autogenerating" languages as described before, they *are*
limited by *both* terminology *and* flexibility.

You're just making this up.  You weren't even sure if they existed a few
messages ago.  How come you know enough about them now to make authoritative
statements about their limits?

Things don't evolve solely because they are "needed".

But that's what evolution claims!  Things "evolve" PRECISELY because
they are needed!!

No, they don't.  Some things evolve because they are beneficial (which isn't
_exactly_ 'needed', but probably what you meant).  Some things evolve by
random chance, or by feedback loops that start with random perturbations
(peacock's tail), or because they tag along on something that evolved for a
different reason (big toes, male nipples).

And of course I should take your word for this?  How am I supposed to tell
between false and true Christians, so I know which one to believe?

I can point out exactly where ...

Those other Christians that I can't tell from you are pointing out things that
look as good as the ones you're pointing out.

Odd how God's healing is limited to cases where spontaneous remission
can happen, or where it's possible to imagine that things got better.  God
never, for instance, regrows lost arms.

Oh no?  Read the story of Jesus healing the man with the withered arm.

That one can be imagined too--you don't imagine the healing, you imagine that
the person who was healed exists.  God never regrows arms in modern times.