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To: Nicholas Conradin

Teilhard was one of those present at the discovery of the famous Piltown fraud. Oddly enough, even when it was being touted as a great discovery, Teilhard never mentioned it in his own writings. One wonders...


14 posted on 11/17/2005 11:52:23 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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Not much wondering to be done, IMO - Teilhard was a crackpot, by and large, with that particular French gift of burying both the absurdly wrong and the ludicrously trivial under a smothering avalanche of verbiage (SEE ALSO: Lacan, Jacques; Foucault, Michel; et. al.)

I don't have a clue what the author means by "you could spend years struggling...in order to see where Teilhard goes wrong" - Peter Medawar did it in about six pages...

45 posted on 11/17/2005 12:17:52 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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