(324)   Wed 26 Nov 97 10:41
By: Karl Schneider
To: Richard Smith
Re: Left-handedness                                          [1]
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On (25 Nov 97) Richard Smith wrote to William Putnam...

 RS>  As well, Aquinas didn't fail to lapse into the fantastic too
 RS>  (thereby showing his own slipping grasp of reality and
 RS>  faulty reasoning, let alone his ignorance of the natural
 RS>  world around him):

 RS>     " . . . Because the incubus demon is able to steal the
 RS>      semen of an innocent youth in nocturnal emissions and
 RS>      pour it into the womb of a woman, she is able by this
 RS>      semen to conceive of offspring, whose father is not the
 RS>      demon incubus, but the man whose semen impregnated her,
 RS>      because it took effect by the virtue of him from whom it
 RS>      was dissipated.  Therefore it seems that a man is able
 RS>      without a miracle to be at one and the same time both a
 RS>      virgin and a father . . . "

 Hey, you can probably sell this to Barry Scheck, he could use it
 for a paternity defense!


... I like apples cooked in turpentine.

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