paleonet FW: A new hypothesis... - See AAPG!

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Subject: Re: A new hypothesis... - See AAPG!


Hail All
Sorry to pile on but it's worse than that I guess.

The latest issues of the AAPG Explorer (newsletter/journal for the American 
Association of Petroluem Geologists) have been debating climate change and 
evolution in articles and letters and there are several (geologists,
chemists and 
engineers I presume....) indicating that  "the fossil record does not
support 
darwinism..", ID should be "considered as an alternate hypothesis by the 
closed-minded paleontologists"... Climate change is an invention of
journalists 
with "no scientific basis..."    and of course continuing confusion
regarding the 
difference between "Creation"/first life and subsequent evolutionary
process. 


The misapplication of high school earth science in these letters by people 
who should know better was astounding given the purported audience.    All
the 
more disturbing given the huge role that Petroleum exploration has had in 
developing the biostratigraphic, geochemical, and sealevel/stratigraphic
record so 
important to our understanding of Earth History.

I was depressed for days.   So thank you for humoring me this therapeutic 
chance to vent.    I feel better now (....except for the vague notion that I
am 
somehow a member of a vanishing and obscure cult of mythical
practices.....).

Courage 

DG Wolfe
P.I.  Zuni Basin Paleo Project

"A ship in the harbour is safe...but that's not what ships were made for 
...." (plaque on desk)     

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