Re: Patterson's lecture-American Museum of Natural History

Stephen Jones (sjones@iinet.net.au)
Fri, 09 Feb 96 06:51:49 EST

Group

Phil Johnson wrote:

"That very point was the theme of a remarkable lecture given by Colin
Patterson at the American Museum of Natural History in 1981...His
lecture compared creationism (not creation-science) with evolution,
and characterized both as scientifically vacuous concepts which are
held primarily on the basis of faith....Patterson came under heavy
fire from
Darwinists after somebody circulated a bootleg transcript of the
lecture, and he eventually disavowed the whole business."
(Johnson P.E., "Darwin on Trial", Inter VarsityPress: Downers Grove
Ill., Second Edition, 1993, pp9-10)

Does anyone have a copy of the above transcript, (preferably
in electronic form).

Regards.

Stephen

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