Re: 1980 Eldredge: "time to reexamine" theory of NS

david ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Lenny Flank wrote:
> david ford:
> 
> > > Eldredge, Niles.  July 1980.  "An Extravagance of Species"
> > > _Natural History_, 47-51.  Paragraphs from 48, 50, and 51:
> >
> > Is this before, or after, Eldredge says that creationists are liars
> > and poor scholars, and that creation "science" is bankrupt and
> > dishonest.
> 
> I am an old-earth creationist that rejects "creation science," which says
> that the earth and universe is about 10,000 years old.



As someone once said, "a difference is a difference only if it makes a
difference".

Both YEC's and OEC's are equally nutty.  





> Do you consider me to be a liar? 



Yes.



 If so, on what basis do you arrive at
> that conclusion?




You claim your religious opinions to be "science".






> Do you consider me to be a poor scholar?




Yes.





 If so, on what basis do you
> arrive at that conclusion?




You don't know a prokaryote from a pachyderm, and wouldn't know
evolutionary biology if it reached up and bit you on the ass.

That's the kind of poor scholarship that happens when you get all your
"science" information from creationist religious tracts.






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