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From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
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Subject: New Book: Creation vs. Evolution
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Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 12:22:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 12:22:52 1984
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The Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science has published "Evolutionists Confront Creationists."  The
book is unusual for including two papers by creationists, one an
overview by Duane Gish (Institute for Creation Research), and the
other on radioactive haloes and red shifts by Robert Gentry (Columbia
Union College).

	Evolution science is detailed by Patrick Abbot (San Diego
State University, on stratigraphy), Joel Cracraft (University of
Illinois, Chicago, on systematics), G. Brent Dalrymple (U.S.
Geological Survey, Menlo Park, on the age of the earth), Russell
Doolittle (University of California, San Diego, on the origin of
life), John Patterson (Iowa State University, on thermodynamics),
Robert Root-Bernstein (Salk Institute, on philosophical issues), and
William Thwaites (San Diego State University, on the design argument).

	The 200-page softcover book may be purchased at $9.75 per copy
plus $1.50 postage per order (prepaid orders only):  make checks
payable to California Academy of Sciences.  California residence add
tax to price of books.  Write AAAS Pacific Division, c/o California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118.

	(from the April 6, 1984, issue of "Science")