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To: Ilaine who wrote (92661)12/28/2004 8:39:11 PM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 793755
 
He did not have to believe that it was naturally occurring in order to do his job.

Interesting way of handling cognitive dissonance....



To: Ilaine who wrote (92661)12/29/2004 11:13:58 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 793755
 
"When I was in high school, I dated a guy whose dad was an important research geologist for a petroleum company, but also a fundamentalist. He honestly believed that the fossil record had been created by the Devil to tempt mankind (or maybe by God to test mankind, I really don't remember at this far remove)."

Was this before or after the Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species"