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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Son of Variable C
Message-ID: <1181@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Sep-84 22:24:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  1 22:24:10 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Sep-84 10:19:09 EDT
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Let me assure Paul DuBois that I not only considered, but spent undue
hours studying and analyzing "The Velocity of Light and The Age of the
Universe" by Barry Setterfield. This work was cited by Walter Brown, a
local creationism advocate here in Naperville IL, in a talk he gave at
Indian Hill Bell Labs at the invitation of the Indian Hill Bible Club.

I posted a series of articles to net.religion (this predated net.origins)
explaining in gory detail why I judged Setterfield's work to be
"scientific bathos".

Please note the tentative way that Paul advanced his suggestion that this
concept is a victim of evolutionary dogmatism. There is a childrens' game
at Show Biz Pizza Place which makes a striking metaphor for this sort of
creationist argumentation. A series of large plastic pegs pop up one at
a time from an array of holes as the player tries to pound each one in
succession with a large mallet, which usually lands harmlessly as its target
retreats to cover just ahead of it, even as another pops enticingly into view.

I thought I had scored a hit last time around, but I later realized that
several prominent net creationists were quietly sitting that one out. On
this second time around, I find myself thoroughly disabused of the notion
that any creationist argument can be silenced by refutation.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew

	"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly"

			Proverbs 26:11