Today's Topics:
Secular Humanist Bulletin address
Flintstones
Mystery Message Denied Categorically
Christia list
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Message-Id: <8906081340.AA12474@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 09:14:47 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich%spruce@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Subject: Secular Humanist Bulletin address
Their address is:
Secular Humanist Bulletin
c/o The Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH, Inc)
3159 Bailey Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215-0005
(716)-834-2921
The Bulletin is a supplement to "Free Inquiry" magazine. Make their day:
they would like nothing better than a cheery note or phone call telling
them that they'll burn in hell if they don't recant soon. Please,
reinforce their world-view today! {Hey, isn't "Codesh" one of those names
of Satan?!}
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 09:23:06 edt
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich%spruce@wrath.cs.cornell.edu>
Subject: Flintstones
A last bit from "The Secular Humanist Bulletin":
"Creationism" and Scholarship
Thirty percent of high-school biology teachers polled by Dana Dunn believe
that "creationism" should be taught in Biology.
Dunn, a University of Texas sociologist, surveyed 400 teachers selected at
random from a list of 20,000 provided by the National Science Teachers
Association. Some of her findings:
1. Nineteen percent believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same
time (the Flintstone effect). Fourteen percent were not sure.
2. Twenty-seven percent thought the dead can communicate with the living.
3. Twenty-eight percent said people can predict the future.
4. Thirty-four percent believe in mind reading.
The report did not say how many biology teachers believe babies come from
storks, the moon is made of green cheese, and/or the earth is flat.
{there's more about this in a recent "Skeptical Inquirer" - I recall other
fun statistics about whether people believed the Devil was real, etc}
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 08:49:14 EDT
From: Alexander Kay <obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@bloom-beacon.mit.edu>
Subject: Mystery Message Denied Categorically
I completely and absolutely deny that such 'spinning' behavior actually took
place. Who is this 'Painted Pig' person(?) anyway?
Have you ever wondered if the Ley lines were getting slack?
Alexx
"When -are- we, anyway?"
obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
obsolete!pro-angmar!alexx@buit.bu.edu
Alexander N Kay
3 Norumbega Terrace (617) 891-5410 (home)
Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 893-1221 (work)
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 17:39:28 PDT
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