Bill's question:"Which life appeared first? Please answer that."
This is one of the stranger "exchanges" because of its brevity. It seems that Bill Morgan had asked it just to feel out my position and experience. This was one of the earlier questions, so I had not yet started to CC: the messages to myself for archiving. Hence you only have my report of how I had responded. Please note that in my response to his question, I asked a counter-question, what relevence his question had, to which Bill never responded.
The background of this exchange is that Bill had started insisting that I call him on the phone and would respond to my questions with a "call me", even though I had repeatedly explained to him why not.
In the following text, I am "DWise1" and Bill Morgan is "BillyJack6." Liber8r was a third-party witness to our correspondence.
############################################## Subj: Re: Why a Phone? Date: 97-08-21 21:43:17 EDT From: BillyJack6 To: DWise1 Becuase I like the phone better. I can teach you more quicker on the phone (I say that humbly....I know you can present no evidence that bacteria evolved to blue whales). Which life appeared first? Please answer that. 714 898-8331 Bill response was given on-line to the effect that the reasons against still stand and that his insistence on the phone reveals that his only intent is to try to proselytize; I ask that he please prove me wrong. I started off by criticizing his grammar, though not pointing out precisely what was wrong with it; more specifically, he's so intent on teaching me whereas I should be teaching him, especially about English grammar, though my study of German does give me an unfair advantage there. To his question, I responded that the oldest fossil evidence is of bacteria. Then I ask him what that is supposed to have to do with anything. I conclude (either here or in the other message) by reminding him that we have digressed and that the real issue still needs to be addressed, namely the effects of teaching lies to bolster faith and to proselytize. Either in this message or the other, I inform him that I will be on duty for two weeks, returning home for the intervening weekend. This meant: 1. if he wanted to get something to me before I left, he would have to do it before Sunday evening. 2. after that, the soonest I could check my e-mail would be Friday evening, 29 Aug, after which the latest would be before Monday evening, 1 Sep. 3. I would be back for regular e-mail traffic starting Friday evening, 5 Sep. ###################### As of 07 Sep, I had received no further response from him. #################
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First uploaded on 2000 July 02.
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