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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: The ICR
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 16:30:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 16:30:12 1985
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My teacher named Steven Jay Gould has been to the Institute for Creationism
Research in San Diego.  He has harsh words about it.  He says that it has
professors, secretaries, a library, a few blackboards, and all the other
things that a research institute might have.  But no research goes on
there.  No one goes out and digs for fossils.  No one compiles data and
performs statistical tests on it.  No one even looks at geological samples.
The professors, most of whose degrees are in areas other than biology, sit
and write rhetorical arguments against evolution.  You see, in order to be
in the Institute for Creationism Research, you don't have be a researcher.
You do, however, have to sign a statement saying that you believe the
theory of creationism.

What a mockery of a place of science this is!  What an offensive attempt at
gaining scientific authority!  They should almost be shut down for fraud.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn