I dunno Will, haven't made up my mind. It's actually more disturbing to me that someone can do such convincing scientific work, and then at the end of the day, flush it all down the toilet in favor of their mythological beliefs. I mean, what is the value of attaining knowledge of your world, if you have no intention of using it???
His scientific work is sound. To me, that is the most important aspect of this...his beliefs don't seem to have tainted his science in any way, shape, or form. I think as long as that remains the case....I'm fine with this. When he tries to hold his secular credentials up while preaching for creationism and a young earth, what's to stop a student from producing his dissertation to refute every word coming out of his mouth??? On 2/12/07, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The dissonance between his paper and his stated beliefs don't raise an > alarm to you? > > > > Fascinating (to me anyway) article about a young-earth creationist, who > > nevertheless produced a dissertation in paleontology that was > scientifically > > sound, and which refutes many of his religious beliefs. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/science/12geologist.html > > > > I thought the University of Kansas professor near the end of the article > was > > dead on. In the science realm, you have to judge someone on his merits > as a > > scientist. If his work is sound, you cannot discriminate because you are > > concerned about his religion. > > > > -- > will > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > and that would just be unacceptable." > - Carrie Fisher > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
