Re: New Topic of Discussion
Phil Nicholls (pn8886@csc.albany.edu)
8 Feb 1995 20:33:11 GMT
In article <3h6npn$d1h@badger.3do.com>, Joel Hanes <jjh@3do.com> wrote:
>>I am referring to her assinine article on Fermat's last theorem,
>>where she challenged the whole way math is done these days.
>>Math departments still have thick steam a year and a half later.
>>Her arguments were about as coherent as those of Jeremy Rifkin
>>when he argues against evolution.
>
>Ah.
>
>You must have read _Algeny_, wherein the redoubtable Rifkin erects an
>unrecognizable strawman that he calls "Darwinism", throws a couple of
>weak punches at it, and declares himself the victor; all the while
>comparing himself favorably with other "futurists".
>
>Vile, incoherent, self-congratulatory tripe.
Amen to that. An interesting thing, non-religious opposition to evolution.
Rifkin is a public nitwit.
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Philip "Chris" Nicholls Department of Anthropology
Institute for Hydrohominoid Studies SUNY Albany
University of Ediacara pn8886@cnsunix.albany.edu
"Semper Alouatta"
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