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To: rockprof

"...psuedoscience..."

All the references which you dismiss had ideas in them. Why not argue the issues rather than attacking the sources. If the sources are invalid, I would think a rock professor could dismiss the contents without breaking a sweat.

There is nothing narrower than the mind of a learned liberal professor. You must get rave reviews from you student evaluations. It appears that brow-beating passes for teaching in your classes.


41 posted on 07/22/2006 6:32:07 AM PDT by burroak
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To: burroak
All the references which you dismiss had ideas in them. Why not argue the issues rather than attacking the sources. If the sources are invalid, I would think a rock professor could dismiss the contents without breaking a sweat.

I've spent years arguing with young-Earth creationists. It's a waste of time and effort. They're immune to evidence, too lazy to learn more than superficially about the science they criticize, and invoke the miraculous when you effectively critique their ideas. You are the one seeking to overturn hundreds of years of science (astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) supported by millions of research projects done by tens of thousands of scientists. I think it's up to you to to the legwork showing how we're wrong (and not by juvenile semantic arguments quoting encyclopedia articles).

There is nothing narrower than the mind of a learned liberal professor. You must get rave reviews from you student evaluations. It appears that brow-beating passes for teaching in your classes.

Yes, I'm a professor. I am in no way liberal - you're just exhibiting your anti-intellectual bigotry (professor=liberal). I never brow beat students either but I do try to teach them to think and require that they support their arguments with verifiable evidence - not anecdotes or feelings.

I'm also an evangelical Christian and have taught geology classes at two well-respected Christian Colleges where geologists are not young-Earth creationists (YECs). I've extensively read authors like Henry Morris, Ken Ham, Duane Gish, among many other YECs, have publicly debated some, and attended their talks and conferences. Virtually all the YECs I meet in the pews have never even cracked open a basic science text (yet they "know" we're all atheistic liars).

78 posted on 07/22/2006 7:21:08 AM PDT by rockprof
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