Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Catastrophic Evolution/ more on large animals and extinction Message-ID: <519@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:10:32 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.519 Posted: Sat Aug 10 00:10:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 07:35:30 EDT References: <367@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 18 I will simply mention the fact that the evidence for the extinction of large mammals by the Indians is quite convincing. Ted is, of course, free to believe it or not as he wishes. Which reminds me: Another of the criteria by which science can be distinguished from pseudoscience is the fact that pseudoscientists only care to consider evidence that supports their cause, and systematically ignore the evidence on the other side. -- "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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)