(47)    Sat 31 May 97 18:14
By: Karl Schneider
To: John Musselwhite
Re: Earth in Upheaval.
St:
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JM>On 26 May 97  16:53:20, Laurie Appleton penned the following to John

JM> LA> (When the Sky Rained Fire, Reader's Digest, February, 1976,
JM> LA> p.169)

JM>  Perhaps this from page 780 of Asimov's Guide to Science may
JM>  help:

JM>  "To demonstrate that evolutionary theory was not true, they
JM>  [Creationists] did not hesitate to misquote, distort, take out
JM>  of context, and in other ways violate the Biblical commandment
JM>  against bearing false witness. And even so they proclaimed
JM>  their own view as true only by default and never, at any time,
JM>  have presented rational evidence in favor of their creationism,
JM>  which they solemnly (but ridiculously) call "scientific
JM>  creationism."

I rather like this, as well, from p. xi, Introduction to Counting
The Eons, (c) 1981, Mercury Press:

"What the creationists *call* evidence is quotations from various other
creationists whom they call "scientists" on the basis of such things as
a degree in engineering; making use of NO quotes, moreover, that ever
offer any evidence worthy of the name."

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