Re: John Murray 1840 young earther

From: Michael Roberts (topper@robertschirk.u-net.com)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 12:07:46 EST

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    Exactly

    michael
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    From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
    To: "Michael Roberts" <topper@robertschirk.u-net.com>
    Cc: "Glenn Morton" <glenn.morton@btinternet.com>; "Asa@Calvin. Edu"
    <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:27 PM
    Subject: Re: John Murray 1840 young earther

    > Michael Roberts wrote:
    > .......................
    >
    > > Winchester is one of the worst and I enclose what I wrote in a review of
    The
    > > Map that changed the World.;
    > >
    > > ".... He refers to the "church" negatively some
    > > thirty times and it gets tedious. His prejudice surfaces most blatantly
    on
    > > p29, 'The hunch that God might not have done precisely as Bishop Ussher
    had
    > > suggested,., was beginning to be tested by real thinkers, by
    rationalists,
    > > by radically inclined scientists who were bold enough to challenge both
    the
    > > dogma and the law, the clerics and the courts.''
    .............................
    >
    > Michael -
    > In addition to things you point out, note the implication here that
    Ussher
    > wasn't a "real thinker.'
    > Of course this is nonsense, as pointed out by - among others - Gould in
    his
    > essay "Fall in the House of Ussher".
    >
    > Shalom,
    >
    > George
    >
    > George L. Murphy
    > http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
    > "The Science-Theology Interface"
    >
    >
    >



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