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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Sorry Dan, but I don't have my barfbags handy
Message-ID: <682@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 15:06:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 15:06:57 1985
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In article <201@cylixd.UUCP> charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) writes:
>
>  More to the point, what
>number of biologists are creationists?  Most of them that I have known
>are.  (Please note that this is based on personal observation, not 
>statistical study.  I admit that the biologists I know may not 
>represent a statistically valid sample, so I will not draw any universal
>conclusions.)
>
	Well, at one major university that I know of, with a large,
well-respected biology program, there is only one member of the
biological faculty that I would call a Creationist.

>(Of course, that depends on how you define "creationist".  If a
>creationist is one who believes the universe was created in 
>accordance with Bishop Usher's calculations, they aren't creationists.
>But if a creationist is one who believes that "In the beginning, God 
>created the heavens and the earth", they are.)

	A very interesting definition, by that definition *I* am a
creationist!  I do not think many Creationists would accept that
definition as a sufficient one.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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