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To: Inappropriate Laughter

I read a good portion of the long, tortured diatribe you posted which attempted in vain to rescue Maxwell from the creationist camp. Your diatribe failed. Maxell was a creationist. Here is a Maxwell quote taken from your own link!:

“They continue this day as they were created — perfect in number and measure and weight, and from the ineffaceable characters impressed on them we may learn that those aspirations after accuracy in measurement, truth in statement, and justice in action, which we reckon among our noblest attributes as men, are ours because they are essential constituents of the image of Him who in the beginning created, not only the heaven and the earth, but the materials of which heaven and earth consist.”


101 posted on 04/17/2009 7:54:04 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
I read a good portion of the long, tortured diatribe you posted which attempted in vain to rescue Maxwell from the creationist camp. Your diatribe failed. Maxell was a creationist. Here is a Maxwell quote taken from your own link!:
“They continue this day as they were created — perfect in number and measure and weight, and from the ineffaceable characters impressed on them we may learn that those aspirations after accuracy in measurement, truth in statement, and justice in action, which we reckon among our noblest attributes as men, are ours because they are essential constituents of the image of Him who in the beginning created, not only the heaven and the earth, but the materials of which heaven and earth consist.”

You should have kept reading Petzold's essay, which provides the historical facts about creationist claims regarding Maxwell's "creationist" beliefs... And for your own little attempt at "quote-mining," They continue this day as they were created ..., the "They" are, as is obvious in context, molecules, not biological species.

Maxwell is a "creationist" who accepts that the world is "untold ages" old, accepts Darwinian evolution, and refused to join the Victoria Institute, founded to defend “the great truths revealed in Holy Scripture,” because he would not limit scientific inquiry to religious dogma.

If Maxwell is a "creationist" then modern evolutionary biologists, who are also Christians, including Ken Miller, are also "creationists."

109 posted on 04/17/2009 10:24:54 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
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