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4 Sep 2024 13:21:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The last line totally sells this  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 11 May 2010 14:52:27
Message: <4be9a76b$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/10/2010 11:37 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I remember just sitting there in utter astonishment that somebody could
>>> actually write this stuff and expect to be taken seriously. Or that
>>> anybody would be willing to print it, for that matter. WTF?
>>>
>>> The most worrying part is that this guy is apparently a scientist. He
>>> actually works for somebody studying molecular biology. (Or so he
>>> claims. In retrospect, I have to wonder if it's actually true...)
>>>
>> No. He is a mathematician, and a bad one, who works for some hack at
>> the Discovery Institute, who probably got *his* science degree from
>> some place like Liberty University, or the like. Alternatively, it
>> might have been from a legitimate institution, but they where one of
>> the clowns that managed to put out a final thesis that is 100% based
>> on what they learned in class, thus appearing to understand the
>> material, while, never the less, rejecting 100% of the conclusions,
>> including the ones they put in their own final paper. This has,
>> unfortunately, happened a few times in recent years...
>
> His book claims that he works in a lab somewhere studying the chemistry
> of the cell.
>
> Then again, his book also claims that life was designed by an
> intelligent entity and that every lifeform that ever came into being was
> pre-encoded into the DNA of the first single-celled microbe that was
> artificially placed on Earth, so...
>
Hmm. Net says: Biology professor at Lehigh University. Still not 
impressed. lol

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