Re: John Morris claims to be a geologist again.

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 05:28:32 -0600

At 03:21 PM 2/18/97, Peter Grice wrote:
><< Ian Plimer, a member of the Australian Research Council and professor of
>geology at Newcastle University, reported that PCI is not accredited or
>authorized to grant degrees. Plimer stated, "Any degrees from this 'College'
>are illegal in Australia and are clearly being used fraudulently in the
>U.S.A.[28] >>
>
>Glenn,
>
>I enjoyed your post but would like to mention that Ian Plimer's
>contributions should be taken with a grain of salt. His views are tainted
>by hatred of Creationism, doing violence to the objective cause. He has a
>tendancy to use ad hominum arguments, together with emotive and exaggerated
>language oftentimes in place of facts. I write to you from Australia, and I
>would seriously doubt at face value his claim that degrees from Pacific
>College are /illegal/ here. That is a word that seems to me not to fit.

I have no doubt that Plimer hates Christians. He is the one suing some
creationist for fraud or something. However, even if a Pacific college
degree is not illegal, it is not what most people would consider worth the
paper it is written on and that is the point. One of my good friends from
my YEC days had a D.Sc. degree from Indiana Christian University, which is a
Bible college and one from Columbia pacific which is non accredited. He had
a real masters in Physics. Why he claimed these other degrees I never could
understand other than as a means of increasing his public credibility.

The whole thing is ugly and Christians shouldn't tolerate it. But we aren't
sceptical enough to even know it happens.

glenn

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