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It seems to be possible to block unlogged-in users from a certain IP address without blocking logged-in users from the same address; pls consider this type of block with IP addresses with many users.

Hey -- I checked, and all autoblocks from that block have already been undone, so you should be okay to edit. Mangojuice^talk 14:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Aiden's comments on talk:evolution

Recently Aiden posted yet another attempt to characterise the evolution article as NPOV. I tried out the idea of moving off topic and pointless discussion to talk pages and moved it to Aiden's talk page. Aiden reverted the move claiming that it was "censorship". The post is now developing into a nice little time waster on the evolution talk page. Not sure what conclusions to draw. Perhaps I did this too early. Perhaps Aiden is unreasonable. Perhaps I am. Never the less its an interesting little piece of empirical evidence to consider when thinking of the off topic posting problem. Barnaby dawson 17:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks, always good to know my edits aren't hated by everybody.

As to my comment on science and faith: it was a short comment on a topic on which entire volumes have been written, so I hope you can excuse my rather ignorant statement. From the most liberal point of view (of which John Paul II is a good example) I agree with you that science does not contradict religious faith (as science must be agnostic on the existence of God). However, read John Paul II letter about evolution. It is written in an excellent manner: it shows that evolution is the best theory we have, but still manages to somehow indicate that the Catholic Church was right all the way through the conflict.--Roland Deschain 03:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

hated by everybody - bear in mind that people generally only reply when they don't like what you've written. if they like it (or don't care!!!), they don't object.

I read the letter a while ago. Catholic Church was right all the way through the conflict: the Catholic Church didn't really have a position, other than:

• 1. evolution is an issue for science, and is outside the competence of the Church (hence the deliberate vagueness)
  2. Catholics should therefore take their own positions, provided that they recognise i) the existence of God, ii) original sin, iii) and the existence of souls.
  3. points i), ii) and iii) are outside the competence of science.

I hope you can excuse...: the whole debate is dominated by the Dawkinite/Dembskiite views. most people don't realise that there are other tenable positions.

JPII liberal: :-D !!! I like him a lot. he really messes with some of these categories/sterotypes.

Sillygrin 05:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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