There used to be a man on the faculty at Harvard who had only a B.A.
but was one of the world's great experts on Shakespeare. When asked why he
didn't get a doctorate he is supposed to have replied, "Who would examine me?"
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu wrote:
> James Mahaffy Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:36 PM
>
> > While
> >Jon's credentials are good, as a group YEC have more than one leader
> >that has credential that are not that great. But what we should look
> >at is the arguments and perhaps the science of the person. On this
> >list, I respect Glenn for his reading and command of the anthropology
> >literature - although as far as I know he has no advanced degrees in
> >that area.
>
> Thank you for the kind words, but that is not why I am writing. I just
> wanted to point out that Richard Leakey droppped out of college yet no one
> doubts his credentials in anthropology. This is from a book on the history
> of early anthropological efforts in Ethiopia, by one of the participants:
>
> "Johanson saved his most rabid criticisms, however, for all
> things Leakey, especially Richard, who by then was making major
> discoveries at Lake Turkana. Richard had previously worked one
> field season with the Omo Research Expedition, as leader of a
> Nairobi-based team, a position he had inherited fro his father.
> Originally Louis was supposed to lead the Kenyan team, but his
> health made this impossible. According to Johanson, the notion
> that Richard was qualified to lead anything scientific was
> ludicrous. When Richard took over leadership of the team in 1967,
> he was 23 years old (one year younger than Johanson), lacked a
> college degree, and had not published a single scientific paper
> (but then neither had Johanson). His only claim to fame, according
> ot Johanson, was his daddy's name." Jon Kalb, Adventures in the
> Bone Trade, (New York: Copernicus Books, 2001), p. 76
>
> Who is going to say Richard isn't qualified now? He still doesn't have a
> college degree.
>
> glenn
>
> see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
> for lots of creation/evolution information
> anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
> personal stories of struggle
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