Re: paleonet reference needed

[Dawn Peterson <jurdyke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique,

Sorry for the disgusted tone of that message. I generally don't get as angry
as I am, I've gone so far underground that events such as we are
experiencing normally don't disturb me. For me, life is just as I would wish
it. Nonetheless, I hate what the US represents, both within and outside it's
borders. Sometimes I just like to bitch a little!
When will you send me one of your novels? I'll send you one of my research
papers. I am not so bad at reading French. Not so great either, but I could
manage. Mom says they're "really weird."

Cheers,
Dawn

----- Original Message -----
From: "bivalve" <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
To: <PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: paleonet reference needed


> Would anyone be able to provide information about a figure in
> "John Thackray, The Age of the Earth (1980)"?  I have a citation by a
young-earth advocate who is trying to reject the geologic column.  He quotes
enough to demonstrate that Thackray actually disproves the claim, thereby
demonstrating his own ignorance.  However, I would like to confirm whether
the quotation is accurate.  I also want to quantify the ignorance, which
would require a list of the taxa shown in Thackray's figure 21, p. 10.  He
calls all of the taxa shells, whereas the quote demonstrates that Thackray
at least figures some microfossils.  However, calling a foram a shell is a
more plausible mistake than calling a graptolite a shell, and the quote
suggests but does not say that graptolites are figured.
>
> Thanks!
>
>     Dr. David Campbell
>     Old Seashells
>     University of Alabama
>     Biodiversity & Systematics
>     Dept. Biological Sciences
>     Box 870345
>     Tuscaloosa, AL  35487 USA
>     bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
>
> That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
Droitgate Spa
>