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Subject: Re: Can Creationists Contribute to Science?
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 09:45:34 EST
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	May I recommend

		ABUSING SCIENCE: The Case Against Creationism
		Philip Kitcher
		MIT Press; 1982.

Kitcher	is a philosopher of science at the University of
Minnesota who knows his science (evolutionary theory), knows
his "scientific creationism", and writes clear prose
accessible to a lay public explaining the former and
*demolishing* the latter.  Sometimes we philosophers *can*
perform a public service.  If only anyone would *listen*....

			--Jay Rosenberg
			Department of Philosophy
		  Univ. of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
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