Word: creationists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1960s pictures of the site appeared in a creationist book called The Genesis Flood, and the creationist camp seized on them to prove their contention that all species had once coexisted. The arguments were precariously based on the widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could...
...been convincingly handed down. "As a scientist, I am willing to be wrong if I am wrong," says John D. Morris, associate professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. His book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them and a creationist movie on the same subject have been withdrawn from circulation...
...know if it is because I look intelligent or simply because I look confused enough to believe them, but every creature of this type always finds me the perfect person with whom to share his creationist or eschatological theories. Indeed, it seems I can never make it from Bay Bank to the Coop without something lurching into me and shouting at me "God is here!!! I saw him in the Wursthaus!" or "Don't think I don't know what you did to my wife...
Perhaps the best insight into Rifkin's complex mind and motivations appears in his 1983 work Algeny, a book that presents a creationist-like view of Darwin and makes it clear that Rifkin disapproves of tampering with the genes of any of God's creatures--from viruses to man. In Algeny, Biologist Stephen Jay Gould charged in a 1985 review, Rifkin "uses every debater's trick in the book to mischaracterize and trivialize his opposition, and to place his own dubious claims in a rosy light." The book, Gould concludes, is "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading...
...thin tome lays out the creationist views in the form of stories a father beetle tells his son Bomby about the ways of the bombardier family. The text is peppered with scientific terms like amino acids and catalase, but it is so riddled with errors that entomologists cannot begin to guess where Rue got her information. (For example, the beetles do not spray their eggs with tear gas for protection, as the author maintains.) Biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, one of the world's leading bombardier experts, says of the book, "I've never seen anything like...