[aclug-L] Re: Linux and Creationism...

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my boredome this evening, I wrote an email to the "author" of the
article... pointing out flaws in an (of course) serious-ish tone.  I thought
I'd see if there's really any breathing person behind it who might reply...
and if so... I'd like to see HOW the reply. :)

-- Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:32:48AM -0600, Bruce Alderman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, John Reinke wrote:
> >that this article was a slashdot.org story a few days ago [1]. I'd 
> >guess that a majority of the readers came to the conclusion that it 
> >really was a hoax. Yes, there are fundamentalists/extremests who 
> >would probably believe everything in the article, because they, well, 
> >believe everything in articles like this.
> 
> I think the telltale sign proving it is a hoax is that it provides
> actual links to the web sites of the people and organizations it
> condemns.  A REAL fundamentalist site wouldn't dare make it so easy for
> its readers to access sites of the "forces of darkness", lest the weaker
> members of the flock be led astray.
> 
> Several people have commented that a site like this gives Christianity a
> bad name; I think that is its intent.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce Alderman                                baa@xxxxxxxxxx
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