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What got into Hoyle?

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Coragyps
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05-02-2007 5:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 32 by Percy
05-02-2007 1:01 PM

Re: The Reasons....
This is because they'll, for instance, approve of challenging the authenticity of the Archaeopteryx fossils and ignore the shabby scientific grounds upon which Hoyle based his challenge.
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They also seem to ignore his statement, somehow connected with the Arkansas school creationist lawsuit, that a person was delusional if they thought the universe was less than billions of years old.
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Coragyps
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05-02-2007 6:19 PM 		Reply to: Message 35 by PaulK
05-02-2007 5:57 PM

Re: The Reasons....
That was Wickmarasingh rather than Hoyle himself.
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All I can find at the moment is what Wick said on the witness stand in [i]Epperson vs. Arkansas:
Q. Could any rational scientist believe that the earth's geology can be explained by a single catastrophe?
A. No.
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Q. Could any rational scientist believe that the earth is less than one million years old?
A. No.
quoted here
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But I had a quote once.....on a now-defunct computer, of course, that I remember as being from a book H&W coauthored. Oh well.
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