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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: catastrophic evolution - reply to Bill Jefferys
Message-ID: <640@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:01:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.640
Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:01:32 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:33:23 EDT
References: <365@imsvax.UUCP> <565@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <565@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>
>>[Ted Holden]
>>You haven't heard of the  ultrasaur,
>>you say?   The  people  at  Penn  State  apparently have
>>acquired  him  rather  recently.
>
>No, the CREATIONISTS at Penn State acquired him. Of course, they will
>immediately send it up to their doubting colleagues at Harvard and it
>will be lost in the mail.
>
	Actually for once Mr Holden is more or less correct, "ultrasaurus"
is the informal name of a recently discovered Sauropod(or as Mr Holden
calls them "brontosaur") which is larger than any previously known. Of
course this does not invalidate the calculations that Sauropods
*could* support themselves on land. I am curious though, how did Mr
Holden find out about such a recent find and still miss all the
calculations about the *actual* support capacity of Sauropod legs?

BTW Mr Forsythe, some of your comments on Velikovsky's (mis)treatment
of ancient myths and religious writings were quite good.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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