""No, you deny the suggestion, and you rebut or attempt to rebut it. "Refute" is a much higher standard, which has to be assessed by someone else.

Thanks for the English lesson, Dave.

Kind of fits in with standard Mudcat operating procedure.

When you don't have an answer to WHAT someone says, lecture him on the minor errors he may have made in saying it.

I thought this was about science and religion, not grammar and syntax.

Silly me, I'll go look for something that more befits my meagre command of my NATIVE language.

Bye Now.

Don T.