James>Thanks for your exhaustive documentation. Th...
James
>Thanks for your exhaustive documentation.
Thanks for your comment.
I hope to soon actually start posting my outline notes of my book, "
Problems of Evolution."
>As I present studies on creation, I won't use things I cannot document. Much time is in invested looking things up and triple-checking resources. I feel I need to be especially diligent to document my sources on this topic of ID.
I agree wholeheartdly with this. Much creation (and to a lesser extent ID) evidence and arguments are inadequately backed up by referenced sources.
Perhaps the most eggregious example of this was when the Australian
Creation Science Foundation in 1984 issued a "The Quote Book," the subtitle of which was "112 Quotable Quotes on Creation/Evolution by Leading Scientific Authorities" but which it later admitted "Some of these" quotes were "simply written down on a card after listening to a creation speaker at a lecture"!:
"In 1984, when the original
Quote Book was released, the impact was tremendous. ... Stung, several of the evolutionary establishment in this country went through the book with a fine-tooth comb. To their delight and our surprised dismay, they found that a minority (a distinct minority) of the quotes were somewhat different from the original! How had this happened? With CSF, as usual, sorely under-funded, overworked at the time, the original
Quote Book had been hastily put together from quotes sent in by a number of people. Some of these turned out to have been simply written down on a card after listening to a creation speaker at a lecture-which of course is often quite legitimately done as a paraphrase, not a direct quote. We are not offering excuses here-the work was withdrawn from sale when its handful of errors came to embarrassed attention." (Snelling, A.A., "The Revised Quote Book," [1984], Creation Science Foundation: Brisbane Qld, Australia, 1990, inside cover)
Stephen E. Jones
