Re: YEC and fossils

gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.Colorado.EDU)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 08:43:35 -0600 (MDT)

I find it ironic that in the YEC version of things Burbidge, an outspoken
atheist, is the good guy, and Sandage, a Christian, is the bad guy.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bill Payne wrote:

> Except for some moral encouragement from the Burbidges and Hoyle, Arp
> got little support. When he persisted he began to have problems getting
> telescope time. He was not invited,for example, to share his results at
> subsequent meetings at the Texas Symposium. He felt martyred. His
> biggest and most implacable foe was his old friend Sandage.