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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Creationist veracity
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 21:51:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 21:51:30 1984
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Quoting from Judge Overton's decision in McClean versus the Arkansas Board
of Education (SCIENCE, 19 Feb 1982) :

	Mr. Ellwanger's views on the nature of creation science are
	entitled to some weight since he personally drafted the model
	act which became Act 590.  His evidentiary deposition with exhibits
	and unnumberd attachments (produced in response to a subpoena duces
	tecum) speaks to both the intent of the Act and the scientific merits
	of creation science. Mr. Ellwanger does not believe creation science
	is a science ...

[but doesn't think evolution is either so lays equal claim.]

	Ellwanger's correspondence on the subject shows an awareness that
	Act 590 is a religious crusade, coupled with a desire to conceal
	this fact.

[excerpts of correspondence supporting this.]

... and there's much, much more!  Of course Larry Bickford has been careful
enough to discount this opinion in advance as an example of "a favorite ploy
of the courts".  So much for the U. S. District Court!

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew