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To: editor-surveyor
"In the McLean vs Arkansas Board of Education creationism trial, creationists were when asked, unable to present any examples of creationist articles which had been refused publication in a scientific journal."

"This is a categorically false statement. State the line number in the transcript that you have interpreted to render this lie."

Here is the appropriate excerpt from the Judge's decision:

Creation science as defined in Section 4(a), not only fails to follow the canons of dealing with scientific theory, it also fails to fit the more general descriptions of "what scientists think" and "what scientists do." The scientific community consists of individuals and groups, nationally and internationally, who work independently in such varied fields as biology, paleontology, geology, and astronomy. Their work is published and subject to review and testing by their peers. The journals for publication are both numerous and varied. There is, however, not one recognized scientific journal which has published an article espousing the creation science theory described in Section 4(a). Some of the State's witnesses suggested that the scientific community was "close-minded" on the subject of creationism and that explained the lack of acceptance of the creation science arguments. Yet no witness produced a scientific article for which publication has been refused. Perhaps some members of the scientific community are resistant to new ideas. It is, however, inconceivable that such a loose knit group of independent thinkers in all the varied fields of science could, or would, so effectively censor new scientific thought.

519 posted on 01/17/2007 11:34:31 AM PST by 49th (This space for rent.)
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To: 49th

The Judge's decision is not the transcript.

The Judge was clearly a puppet in the case. I asked for the presented evidence as evidenced by the transcript.


530 posted on 01/17/2007 1:30:58 PM PST by editor-surveyor
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