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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Brian Westley)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re: Honesty
Message-ID: <477@digi-g.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 11:00:42 EST
Article-I.D.: digi-g.477
Posted: Fri Feb  1 11:00:42 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Feb-85 04:46:37 EST
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In article <32500021@uiucdcsb.UUCP> miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP writes:
>>I have read a number of "scientific" papers by creationists, I mean
>>supposedly professional publications, and they have been universally *poor*.
>>They consistantly misuse analytic methods, misapply general scientific
>>principles, use faulty logic, and even use questionable data.
>>Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
>
>Oh?  Zat right?  Perhaps you would like to cite some for us?

Well, the net.origins discussion hardly qualifies as "scientific", but
a few weeks ago someone (name forgotten) made a claim that all organic
life was made up of dextrorotatory (D) molecules (or was it levorotatory (L)?),
while randomly cooked-up goop was about half of each.  This argument re-
surfaced a little later.  At both times, I submitted an explaination that
was totally WRONG! (totally wrong explaination omitted).  The actual
explaination is much simpler; the original assertion is false.  Look up
L-dopa (the levorotatory form of dopa, either sythesized or extracted
from broad beans) and dextrose (the dextrorotatory form of glucose,
found all over the place).  Would the original claimant like to back
up this bogus argument, or shall we hear no more about it?

-- 
Merlyn Leroy
"Quote funny nose"