Re: Limbaugh on Evolution and Dinosaurs (posted for R. Hill)

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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 09:47:11 +0700
From: rhill@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Rik Hill)
To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Limbaugh on Evolution and Dinosaurs
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> 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.
>

In public speaking on astronomy and paleontology I have run across this.
As I tell them, I happen to think that the evidence indicates that
evolution is real and at work all around us. But fundamentalists have
"faith" in a belief system that refutes this. As long as they don't
force me to teach that, I have no problem with what they privately
believe. Limbaugh is a creationist but not terribly outspoken about
it. Usually when he is, he gets the science wrong or fails to understand
it altogether. It's similar to Fred Hoyle, former Astronomer Royal casting
aspersions on the authenticity of Archeopteryx. Totally out of his water.
-Rik

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