From: Ted Davis (TDavis@messiah.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 09:35:53 EST
The information on Hitchcock is not entirley accurate--he preached only
briefly on a regular basis, for example (he lost his church owing to ill
health, then went more fully into geology), but (like George) it's mainly on
target and I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill. I see the
point about Hitchcock claiming that dinosaurs are birds--he did mistake
saurod footprints for those of large, extinct birds (that was his actual
claim). He did not discover these himself, incidentally, they had been
found decades before by a workman; but he did sort of try to get credit for
them. Naughty, but true.
ted
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