On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:15:04 -0400, Bill Hamilton wrote:
[...]
BH>Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science
>at Oxford University, said: "What staggers me about Archbishop
>Ussher's statement is not that he was wrong - so was everybody else
>in his time - but that he was wrong with such confident and
>ludicrous precision."
One can imagine someone in the 24th century writing:
"What staggers me about Professor Dawkins' statements is not that he
was wrong - so was everybody else in his time - but that he was wrong
with such confident and ludicrous precision." :-)
God bless.
Steve
-------------------------------------------------------------------
| Stephen E (Steve) Jones ,--_|\ sejones@ibm.net |
| 3 Hawker Avenue / Oz \ Steve.Jones@health.wa.gov.au |
| Warwick 6024 ->*_,--\_/ Phone +61 9 448 7439 (These are |
| Perth, West Australia v my opinions, not my employer's) |
-------------------------------------------------------------------