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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
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Subject: religion & rational thinking
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Date: Sat, 12-Nov-83 21:46:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 12 21:46:02 1983
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James Hutton, now regarded as the originator of modern geology,
was also conventionally religious. He credited God with creating the
great natural cycles of the earth which so felicitously provide us with
our needs. Georges Cuvier, the founder of paleontology, was a devout
Lutheran and an outspoken opponent of the theory of evolution (pre-Darwinian.)
Nevertheless he recognized the existence of several great epochs of life
in earth history, which he accounted for by a series of special creations,
the last of which was recorded in the Bible.

So I agree with Larry Bickford and others that religion needn't be an
impediment to rational thinking. This leaves me wondering to what I should
attribute the contorted machinations of creationist doctrine.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew