To: average joe who wrote (2438 ) 10/25/2000 5:15:46 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931 Actually that article doesn't refer to fossilized jellyfishes proper --that's impossible by all accounts. However, invertebrates can indeed leave a bodyprint as they end up "canned" in a suitable gangue. Anyway, you creationist fans belong to the most sinister obscurantism.... Somehow, you're worse than the Talebans and other fanatic sects. I mean, where your scientific Luddism will stop? Your next target is likely astrophysics --you'll end up claiming that the sun revolves around the earth and that comets are actually God's angels.... However, the most disturbing thing about this creationist craze (quite an American oddity, btw) is its underlying, hidden politics. After all, evolution(ism) is all about change : as time passes, nature changes, life forms evolve, and so do human societies and the fabric of civilization itself.... Every rule, law, and religious tenet become relative, old-fashioned, and, eventually, obsolete. That's really unnerving for the creationist mob: evolution justifies not only biological changes/mutations but sociopolitical ones as well! For instance, if creationism proves to be true then one might claim that South Africa's apartheid regime was provided by God Himself and that, as such, it can't be challenged.... God created the black man to remain for ever that jungle bum who can't make it in ore-rich Africa, then He created a billion of Chinks just to supply US corporations with a cheap and industrious workforce, and finally, He threw in a few million Arabs for... hell! What'd be mankind's life without a serious, oil-rich bogeyman, after all?! Gus.