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Will_Drotar
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Message 1 of 4 (67764)
11-19-2003 3:33 PM


Anyone ever read this?
This is supposed to be the best defense against the Neanderthal man (and all the austrilopithecine evidence we have)that YEC's have to offer. I'm reading through it right now.
It starts with him getting hunted down by the secret service in France. He barely escapes with his family. Then the paleontologist who invited him to France, a YEC, was 'never heard from again'. It talks about how there's this international conspiracy and he's like the Jedi master who infiltrates and destroys the evolutionist movement- dodging bullets, sneaking around dark alleys, car chases, etc.
Just curious if anyone has anything they'd like to share. I never thought of myself as a dark sith apprentice.

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Message 2 of 4 (67768)
11-19-2003 3:52 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Will_Drotar
11-19-2003 3:33 PM


Is this a spy novel or supposedly a true story?

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Chiroptera
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Message 3 of 4 (67775)
11-19-2003 4:15 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by zephyr
11-19-2003 3:52 PM


hoo-boy!
From this review:
quote:
Running throughout the book is a rivulet of paranoia. A rivulet, did I say? - an ocean, more like: the entire book is soaked in it, and it even infuses the descriptions of the fossils themselves. The entire first section of the book, fifteen chapters long, is a paean of paranoia: There, in 1979, is our hero, with his wife and five children, travelling to Paris; they breach the defences of the Muse de l'Homme, bastion of evolutionism, hiding their X-rays from the staff lest their true purpose be discovered; they are dogged by a mysterious Mr. McCue in Normandy; a furtive visit to the Louvre is spent dodging a sinister American, doubtless an evolutionist sent to tail them, their suspicions confirmed when he is detected that evening dining in the same pizzeria, after which there is a high-speed car chase through the suburbs of Paris, followed by not one but two cars driven by evolutionists; contact with friends is thwarted because their phone number, copied down by the conniving evolutionist lab secretary in the museum, turns out to be just a phone box; finally it gets so bad that, at the airport hotel, they have to unscrew the bathroom doors of the two rooms they occupy, to wedge them against the doors of their suites lest the evolutionists push their way in. This all reads like the screenplay for an Indiana Jones movie, but there is one little difference - there is not a scrap of evidence that anything anything untoward was going on, that any "evolutionist" was the least bit interested in them, let alone giving them wrong phone numbers, following their car, or trying to get into their rooms. (One might, indeed, infer that their own behaviour was more than a little suspicious: what were they doing, in the gastronomic capital of the world, visiting a pizzeria?).
It is things like this that really should discredit the creationist movement.

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Rrhain
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Message 4 of 4 (67910)
11-20-2003 5:24 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Chiroptera
11-19-2003 4:15 PM


Re: hoo-boy!
Chiroptera writes:
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One might, indeed, infer that their own behaviour was more than a little suspicious: what were they doing, in the gastronomic capital of the world, visiting a pizzeria?
Because some people don't like French food? Because people would expect them to go to places that served good food and thus, to throw people off the trail, they went to places that didn't seem typical. Maybe they just didn't know where the decent places were and decided to go for "something safe.
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Rrhain
WWJD? JWRTFM!

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