Re: Limbaugh on Evolution and Dinosaurs

["Eugenie C. Scott" <ncse@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Dan,

I've been curious about Limbaugh on this subject, too.  I'm keeping my 
eyes open, but so far have not found anything.  

May I ask you and those on your list to be sure and copy NCSE anything 
they find?  We should have such info in our archives for others to use.

thanks.

Genie



On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Daniel J. Phelps wrote:

> I picked up the following from talk.origins.  If true, this is truely
> frightening, as Limbaugh has a large following here in the US.  Does anyone
> have a transcript of his exact comments?
>       I know Rush Limbaugh is very anti-intellectual; a few years back he
> ridiculed the paleontologists that found the _Basiliosaurus_ specimen with
> legs.  However, this is the first time I have heard of him being explicitly
> anti-evolution.  Perhaps he is playing up to his listeners from the religious
> right.
> 
> Dan
> 
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> In article <92o3fafrx13.fsf@krusty.eecs.umich.edu>
> kckluge@krusty.eecs.umich.edu (Karl Kluge) writes:
> 
> -------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> 
> In article <DJwKst.5K6@sunspot.nosc.mil> rmyers@sunspot.nosc.mil (Ross W. Myers)
> 
>    Well, on a tip from a friend, I wandered on over to
>    a.f.r.l. and found this little tidbit in John Switzer's
>    summary of Rush's Dec. 14 Radio show...
> 
>      Going back to "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton, Rush warns
>      his listening public that it is about evolution, a subject that
>      many people disagree with and that Rush himself disagrees with
>      when it comes to evolution between species. He does not believe
>      that apes can become men, although he believes in evolution
>      causing changes within particular species.
> 
> Given how ignorant and boneheaded he is on a plethora of other issues,
> this hardly suprising. Rush personifies the worst kind of know-nothing
> populism in US culture.
>