[PW] Re: 1986 Huxley memorial debate

[Graeme Rymill]

The author of Debating Dawkins, Paul Humber, has another web page where
he and his co-author George Cooper take their conspiracy case further.

At one point in the article it is stated that:

"I [GC] have checked with John Durant's original article published as
the first chapter of the book Evolution and Creation, (edited by Sven
Andersen and Arthur Peacocke, Aarhus University Press, Denmark, 1987),
and he does state that the Oxford debate audience voted 198 to 115 in
favor of evolution. (Andersen, p. 12) Thus the data in the reprinted
Durant article published on the website of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science is fraudulent!"

Perhaps the definitive answer to the vote tally appears on another web
site authored by Renton Maclachlan. Maclachlan claims the vote was 198
against and 150 for the motion that "That the Doctrine of Creation is
more valid than the Theory of Evolution'". This is based on an audio
recording of the Debate. A CD of the Debate is available for sale via
this web site.

See: http://www.tonguesrevisited.com/oxford_union_debate.htm

 
Graeme Rymill
University of Western Australia Library