DavidMcC wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:felltoearth wrote:DavidMcC wrote:Now you are taking a leaf out of the literalist book (
viz a viz the use of "all".
EDIT: Oh, no! You'll probably go nuts again, because I dared to criticise your wording - again!
You're taking the comment out of context. The ALL isn't the point of the post.
Either way it's an inane semantic point followed by a personalised edit.
Assuming the "it" was my post, then I think it is you who misunderstood. It was certainly NOT merely a semantic issue! It was theropod being literalist.
I would think when soneone writes the word "all" unqualified in a sentence, they mean "all." Otherwise they would gphave written something like "almost all" or "virtually all" or "all the most significant." Of course when you're an ID proponent, nuance in writing and clarity of ideas aren't a primary pursuit.