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To: DavesM who wrote (53)	9/13/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: MikeH	Respond to of 69300

<<The publisher of an upcoming textbook on the history of Kansas deleted the first chapter, which covered the state's geology>> Don't worry, Kansas doesn't have any geology. :P I heard a story about Kansas once. A father had to go to Kansas on a trip, and his daughter came along because she had too. Dad was a scientist, and to keep his daughter busy, he challenged her to find a rock in Kansas. Kansas topography has a noticable lack of geologic formation, and the dirt is really deep. So, Dad was figuring that his daughter would keep busy for a day or two on this impossible task. To his chagrin, she came home with a rock the first evening. He asked where she found it, and she said in a field. He examined the rock, and it turned out to be a meteorite. She went on to become one of the first women astronauts. Makes a nice ledged, and I'll tell it to my kids, but it's probably not true. However, it is accurate on the description of Kansas topography for most of the state.

To: DavesM who wrote (53)	9/13/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

re: why couldn't god put fossils in the fossil record, and make them seem older than the world...and why couldn't G_d change the decay rate of Carbon over between Noah's flood and now. A God that puts fake fossils in the fossil record, kludges the dates and messes with the laws of Physics on order to deceive is not an honest God. Sounds more like a devil to me :-) My faith of God includes that God could do just about anything, but chooses to limit himself/herself/omni-whatever-self in certain ways. One of these limitations is to be not to lie to us by messing with evidence that we uncover to understand his creation. Another limitation is not to overtly demonstrate his/her/omni-whatever existence so we have free will in whether to believe or not believe. Some people of little faith (Josh McDowell for example) seem to be constructing invalid proofs of their particular interpretation of Genesis and invalid proofs discrediting Scientific models that disagree with their viewpoints. This cuts down on the free will for those who can't think up interesting questions, but such deceptive propaganda activities certainly appear like sin to me.