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1. There was a good discussion of this concept by Ian Tattersall in the April 2002 issue of Natural History. This was an issue on ID - part can be viewed on the magazines website at http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/. 2. the discussion on "absence of evidence" reminds me of a quote associated with the movie Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind: "There is no scientific evidence that disproves the existence of flying saucers." Roy E. Plotnick Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 845 W. Taylor St. Chicago, IL 60607 plotnick@uic.edu office phone: 312-996-2111 fax: 312-413-2279 lab phone: 312-355-1342 web page: http://www.uic.edu/~plotnick/plotnick.htm "The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
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