paleonet YEC&DinoBlood

[Sally Walker <swalker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

31 Oct 05, Hello Michael and all:  we just had a YEC (Young Earth 
Creationist), a Dr. Charles Jackson, come and participate in a lively 
debate for our Demosthenian Society. He debated whether ID should be 
taught with evolution at the K-12 level.  He used the Schweitzer paper, 
and argued that the fossil record can't be old at all because of the 
beautifully preserved veins and, there you have it, the evidence that 
dinosaurs were recently buried by the proverbial Flood.  It didn't help 
that CNN broadcast a bloody-red picture of dino veins when the news 
broke this year...(a 'Turner' classic colorization).  And yes, YECs 
believe the earth is 6000 years old (or, at the most, 10k years old), 
and some of the ID-people believe that the earth is billions of years 
old.  They both agree, however, that a creative designer designed the 
earth and all it's inhabitats and that they think that ID is a "theory" 
on par with evolution, albeit using our evidence to prove their point 
rather than disprove their point.  Sally E. Walker, Univ. of GA, Athens, 
GA USA