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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:18:31 EST
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Jim writes:

> Just to add to the fracas, I found this page:
>
>  http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/dating.html#Carbon
>
>  from a Dr. David A. Plaisted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
>  Hill, Computer Sciences.

[snipped]

>  An anomaly in any of these four items can introduce errors.
>  He continues with a bunch of reasons why radiometric dating is flawed.
>  Plus, it's on the web, so it must be true! :-)

Roger that. It must be true. As Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute
says, people in computer science tack the word "science" onto the backend of
their subject, like the creation scientists do, in the vain hope of making
their field more respectable.

This guy is both a computer scientist and a creation scientist. How much more
respectability can you tolerate in one person?

Wirt Atmar

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