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To: jbloedow
"Speaking of books, does anyone know anything about the late Barbara Stahl's text, "Vertebrate History: problems in evolution"? I was thinking of giving it a read, but if one of you evos who moonlight as specialists in claiming published books are full of errors could provide some insight, that would be great.

If this as aimed at me, you might check back on my posts. You will see I claimed that appendix D of Sewell's book was full of errors. An appendix by the way, that had nothing to do with the focus of the book, which is Calculus. I also made the comment that if the rest of his text was as bad as the appendix I hoped it was not used as an education textbook. I did not claim that the text was full of errors.

1,143 posted on 12/31/2005 3:30:51 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp

Putting a creationist appendix in a book primarily devoted to another subject seems unnervingly familiar. Something like sneaking a "peer reviewed" article pushing creationism into a journal otherwise devoted to cataloging birds and butterflies.


1,147 posted on 12/31/2005 4:26:42 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: b_sharp
[I assume everyone has moved on from this thread, but I wanted to follow up on some posts.]

I did not claim that the text was full of errors.

Not sure where you think I wronged you. I was only ever referring to the appendix in question.

The serious part of my question, though, was about Barbara J. Stahl's book "Vertebrate History: problems in evolution". The 1 reviewer on Amazon seems to think this is a rather brutally honest admission of the failure of the paleontological record to support evolution, written by a total evolutionary paleontology insider.

But whenever I think I've come across a book that provides a stunning critique of Darwinism, it turns out someone on this thread can tell me that it's full of errors or some such thing, so I was just wondering if someone could save me the time of reading it. Since talkorigins, you folks, all say that there is no problem in supporting evolution from paleontology. So someone's gotta be wrong.

Right?

(I'm really hoping someone says 'Stahl doesn't understand evolution'. That would be like Christmas, just funner.)

1,366 posted on 01/03/2006 10:53:05 PM PST by jbloedow
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