Keith -- I was able just now to figure out a viable web site,
http://www.sunflower.com/~jkrebs/
from the one you mentioned in your post and I've been happily surfing
around in there this morning.
I was unaware that my old colleague from IBM, Tom Willis, had been
involved in the Kansas fracas. I see now much more how the controversy
proceeded. I've been on Tom's mailing list for his CSA NEWS for a number
of years and TRIED to carry on a dialog with him on a couple of
occasions. As you might suspect, I am not exactly a fan of CSA -- their
stuff makes ICR seem like a paragon of scientific virtue. Let me say, at
least, that Tom is not representative of most of us who spent our working
lives with IBM.
Anyway -- my curiosity has been fairly well satisfied. For the most part,
I have to agree with the new standards, and the old ones, now that I've
seen them, appear sort of silly. I continue to hold a different position
from you on some of the issues, but I respect your position and I
understand better now what is going on. The POSH objections, and your
responses, are great reading. There are places I might well see a middle
position between their criticism and your response, but those are not
worth pursuing, at least not for me.
I still wish John Wiester would enter in to these discussions.
For anyone interested, the web sites I found the criticism-responses on
are at
criticism
http://posh.roundearth.net/biology.htm
response
http://www.kcfs.org/miller/analysis.html
Burgy (John Burgeson)
www.burgy.50megs.com
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