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- Subject: Re: Rant! Rave! (was: Fermat( was: Noah's Ark))
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.222734.3448@desire.wright.edu>
- From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
- Date: 13 Aug 92 22:27:34 EST
- References: <78S503P957A400@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Aug10.103648@IASTATE.EDU> <87pL03EL5cJQ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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- In article <87pL03EL5cJQ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, jloucks@uts.amdahl.com (Jim Loucks) writes:
- > ccw@prefect.uucp (26554-wood) writes:
- >>I really hate to quote screenfuls of stuff to add a few lines at the
- >>end, so I'll put my comments up here, and do my best trim the rest down
- >>to the bare essentials...
- >
- >>Jim Loucks, you are completely missing Dan's point.
- >
- > Maybe Dan, and for that matter, you missed *my* point.
- >
- >>Dan chose to illustrate this contradiction by describing one who creates
- >>the world _with_the_appearance_of_billions_of_years_of_ history_ in
- >>order to deceive reasoning human beings when in fact the world was only
- >>recently created as "a deceiver", and clearly stated that he did not in
- >>fact believe this to be the case.
- >
- >>Jim, how do you resolve the contradiction between the evidence for the
- >>age of the earth, and the evidence that life here has evolved from
- >>simple creatures to the incredible diversity that we see today?
- >
- > This is a matter of interpretation.
-
- But the vast majority of scientists who have objectively studied life
- consider it to have evolved. The majority of people who consider life
- NOT to have evolved have a religious agenda. That is what we mean.
- And if you may remember, I have asked you in the past to please explain
- how varves were formed, how come ice core dating (several different and
- totally unrelated methods) all agree, tree ring dating also agrees with
- ice core dating, so does coral reef dating. You have consistantly ducked
- discussing any of this.
-
- Sue
-
- >
- >>What is your "a little research" that separates creationism from other
- >>irrational cults?
- >
- > Find the origin of the irrationial cults.
- >
- >>Chris Wood Bellcore ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
- >
- > --
- > Jim Loucks jloucks@uts.amdahl.com
- > {apple, pyramid, sun, uunet}!amdahl!jloucks
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