miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP (01/08/85)
I just got back from Christmas break over the weekend. Several points need to be addressed: 1) I've seen two reviews of SOR #4, from Greg Kuperberg & Mike Huybensz. Mike refers to one by Bill, but it must have scrolled off at our site already. If others have posted reviews, please mail them to me so I don't miss any. 2) SOR #5 won't be out until Feb. because: a) I haven't done much with it yet, b) we are moving, c) I am setting up a creation/evolution debate by Drs. Gish & Nelson on our campus next month (details later), d) etc. etc. Have patience. 3) After SOR #5 is out, I'll respond to all of your reviews. I've made a few changes since the postings; mainly in the area of providing additional quotes or references & revising unclear wording. Most of the replies so far have been rather silly in my opinion. If people would read the references provided, a lot of time would be saved. The problem is: how do you provide people with material short enough so they are likely to read it & yet long enough to give them valid information? I have expected virtually all of your replies, but to include counter-replies in the text would require book length works. One of our main purposes in putting this together was to provide something the "man (student) off the streets" was likely to read. Students won't respond to the statement "go read book blah" & so we put together short tracts. For those who want additional information and/or have challenges, a book list is included at the end of each pamphlet. At any rate, I'll post the counter-replies to the net later (& then there will be counter-counter-replies, & counter-counter ...) 4) As to the discussion on where the Flood waters went, that issue is addressed in detail in "The Genesis Flood". This is another example of where people simply do not do their homework. (I also referenced it in SOR #3). Briefly, Morris describes a period of continental uplift with the waters draining into the current ocean basins. "Go read The Genesis Flood". Now, of course, no one will do it, & evolutionists will continue to distort the creationists' posi- tions. 5) One person said he was going to post the account of the evolutionists' most recent trip to the Paluxy River to videotape the fossil tracks. Did that get posted & I miss it? Last month's BSAN has a most enlightening account of that trip from the creationist side. I may post that article soon since SOR #5 is a while off yet. A. Ray Miller Univ Illinois