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But the danger of seeing something in present-day human behavior and crafting an evolutionary “Just-So Story” to ratify it as hard-wired is very great.
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If you want anyone to buy into your story, then you need some good answers for silly questions like these and about 827 more with some evidence–not just another Just-So story that you made up to patch the holes in your “inerrant” Bible. stevaroni replied to comment from Just Bob
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But the danger of seeing something in present-day human behavior and crafting an evolutionary “Just-So Story” to ratify it as hard-wired is very great.
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If you want anyone to buy into your story, then you need some good answers for silly questions like these and about 827 more with some evidence–not just another Just-So story that you made up to patch the holes in your “inerrant” Bible.
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For example, he commissioned some of Rudyard Kipling's Just-So Stories.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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If you want anyone to buy into your story, then you need some good answers for silly questions like these and about 827 more with some evidence–not just another Just-So story that you made up to patch the holes in your “inerrant” Bible.
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Perhaps worthy of refutation, however, is the Darwinist “Just-So” story of “sexual selection.”
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Perhaps worthy of refutation, however, is the Darwinist “Just-So” story of “sexual selection.”
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Metaphors, Just-So Stories, and Worst Case Scenarios blog about articles archives media
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Here's an off-the-cuff, thumbnail sketch of a theory you could call it a Just-So story about where frightening "supernatural" imagery and the feelings associated with it come from.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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