wrote:

On 1/3/2010 11:11 AM, Fred Williams wrote:
Marvin the Martian wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:11 -0400, Fred Williams wrote:
The rate of species extinction is high.

Appeal to cause fallacy. "Species are dying, ergo it is human caused."

Species are dying, and it is human caused. The "ergo" was your straw
man.


Species died before humans and will die after humans..... So there are
very few if any that humans have killed off.

There's not any logic to that at all. Whether species have dies before or
after has nothing to do with whether humans have killed any off. That's
like a lawyer in court saying that because people have died before March
27th and because more people have died after March 27th, then my client
couldn't have murdered anyone on March 27th!!! There's just no connection
between the observations and the conclusion. That's a non-sequitur, by the
way.


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Fred
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On 1/4/2010 1:35 PM, Fred Williams wrote:
wrote:

On 1/3/2010 11:11 AM, Fred Williams wrote:
Marvin the Martian wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:11 -0400, Fred Williams wrote:
The rate of species extinction is high.

Appeal to cause fallacy. "Species are dying, ergo it is human caused."

Species are dying, and it is human caused. The "ergo" was your straw
man.


Species died before humans and will die after humans..... So there are
very few if any that humans have killed off.

There's not any logic to that at all. Whether species have dies before or
after has nothing to do with whether humans have killed any off. That's
like a lawyer in court saying that because people have died before March
27th and because more people have died after March 27th, then my client
couldn't have murdered anyone on March 27th!!! There's just no connection
between the observations and the conclusion. That's a non-sequitur, by the
way.

List the ones that are extinct due to human causes.....


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On 1/4/2010 1:35 PM, Fred Williams wrote:
wrote:

On 1/3/2010 11:11 AM, Fred Williams wrote:
Marvin the Martian wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:11 -0400, Fred Williams wrote:
The rate of species extinction is high.

Appeal to cause fallacy. "Species are dying, ergo it is human caused."

Species are dying, and it is human caused. The "ergo" was your straw
man.


Species died before humans and will die after humans..... So there are
very few if any that humans have killed off.

There's not any logic to that at all. Whether species have dies before or
after has nothing to do with whether humans have killed any off. That's
like a lawyer in court saying that because people have died before March
27th and because more people have died after March 27th, then my client
couldn't have murdered anyone on March 27th!!! There's just no connection
between the observations and the conclusion. That's a non-sequitur, by the
way.

List the ones that are extinct due to human causes.....

Don't forget the human activity that made the species extinct.
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