Academic thought police

Bertvan@aol.com
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:03:57 EDT

Let me point to the case of Nicolaas Rupke who was a young-earth
creationist and wanted to publish an article on polystrate fossil tree
trunks. His professor who learned of this was horrified that Rupke, his
student was a YEC. The professor warned Rupke that if he continued that it
would lead to bad things. BUT, and this is a BIG but, Rupke's professor
HELPED Rupke write the paper and get it published in the Bulletin of the
GSA. The professor then went on to graduate Rupke and help him get into
Princeton.

This sounds like the professor, while disagreeing with the student, was
quite helpful to him. The professor was one of those geologists that you
characterized so badly. Your generalization is wrong!

Hi Glenn,

Do you know of any Darwinists who might do the same as your very admirable
geologist professor? I know generalizations are wrong, but my generalization
was that geologists are generally LESS dogmatic about materialism than
Darwinists.

Bertvan