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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Balanced Treatment Evolution/Creation
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:40:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 10:40:23 1985
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> In article <187@iwu1d.UUCP> tan@iwu1d.UUCP (William Tanenbaum) writes:
> >A. Ray Miller is of course correct that biology textbooks should
> >present all the SCIENTIFIC arguments for creationism along with those
> >for evolution.   But, they already do.  What do you think the blank
> >page before the title page is for?
> 
> What an incredibly intellectual comment! Obviously you know absolutely
> nothing about origins or are incredibly biased!
> 
> 				      Dan

I have been reading this newsgroup, and its "predecessors" (net.religion,
net.misc, where articles on origins appeared earlier) for the better part
of two years now.  I have read a number of Creationist books (*Scientific
Creationism*, *What is Creation Science?*, *Evolution, the Fossils Say
No!* [both editions], *The Handy-Dandy Evolution Refuter* and others) as well
as books such as Hitchings' and a number of books and articles on evolution
and the Creation/Evolution controversy.  I have yet to see *ANY* SCIENTIFIC
EVIDENCE FOR CREATION.  I have seen a lot of alleged "evidence" which turns
on examination to be wrong, mistaken, or distorted (both intentionally and
unintentionally), but nothing that can be taken seriously from a
scientific point of view.  I can also see why uninformed people who
are not scientists are so easily taken in by the pseudoscientific
nonsense that passes for "science" in the Creationist world.  As Ernest
Hua points out, the people who are pushing Creationism at the ICR and
the CRS will stop at nothing to foist their pseudoscientific trash
upon the unsuspecting public.  They are a clear and present danger to
education.

William Tannenbaum is absolutely right.  The blank page before the title
page of any High School text *does* contain a COMPLETE exposition of the
SCIENTIFIC evidence for Creation.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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