Glenn,
I enjoyed your post but would like to mention that Ian Plimer's
contributions should be taken with a grain of salt. His views are tainted
by hatred of Creationism, doing violence to the objective cause. He has a
tendancy to use ad hominum arguments, together with emotive and exaggerated
language oftentimes in place of facts. I write to you from Australia, and I
would seriously doubt at face value his claim that degrees from Pacific
College are /illegal/ here. That is a word that seems to me not to fit.
Peter Grice