Exactly
michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Michael Roberts" <topper@robertschirk.u-net.com>
Cc: "Glenn Morton" <glenn.morton@btinternet.com>; "Asa@Calvin. Edu"
<asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: John Murray 1840 young earther
> Michael Roberts wrote:
> .......................
>
> > Winchester is one of the worst and I enclose what I wrote in a review of
The
> > Map that changed the World.;
> >
> > ".... He refers to the "church" negatively some
> > thirty times and it gets tedious. His prejudice surfaces most blatantly
on
> > p29, 'The hunch that God might not have done precisely as Bishop Ussher
had
> > suggested,., was beginning to be tested by real thinkers, by
rationalists,
> > by radically inclined scientists who were bold enough to challenge both
the
> > dogma and the law, the clerics and the courts.''
.............................
>
> Michael -
> In addition to things you point out, note the implication here that
Ussher
> wasn't a "real thinker.'
> Of course this is nonsense, as pointed out by - among others - Gould in
his
> essay "Fall in the House of Ussher".
>
> Shalom,
>
> George
>
> George L. Murphy
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
> "The Science-Theology Interface"
>
>
>
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