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To: shawne
Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould said ...

Ah yes. The old "quote out of context" game. Your Gould quote is most probably bogus.

Database entry #126
Quoted by: UCSD IDEA student club
Quoted in: The IDEA Club Fossil Record Quote Collection web page (Last accessed 2001/10/14).
Source: Antievolution Quotes and Misquotes: The Archive.

Your Einstein quote, even if accurate, is worthless. He was great in physics, and a bust just about everywhere else (he was, after all, a socialist). Count on Big Al for relativity; be skeptical about the rest of his output.

As for your Darwin quote, it may be bogus, but even if not, it's typical of the way he wrote. He would ask the question, which a skeptical reader might ask, and then he would go on to answer it. Such passages are a creationist's delight, as they are so frequently taken out of context.

Hoyle's "747 in a junkyard" is absurd. I'll leave it so some of the others to refute it. It's easily refuted. The Denton quote, if genuine, is flat-out erronious. I'll leave it to someone else to fill in the details (it's been done over and over in these threads, and I'm getting lazy).

504 posted on 05/04/2003 7:51:45 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: PatrickHenry
lazy placemarker
514 posted on 05/04/2003 9:02:33 AM PDT by longshadow
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