[PW] Re: 1986 Huxley memorial debate

[Bye, Dan J]

Thanks, but I am aware of the webpages you cite.  What I'm looking for
is confirmation from someone other than those partisan disputants of
what the book actually says.  (The sound recording evidence may not be
"definitive" at all, since "115" could well sound like "150" on a 20
year old recording of a public meeting).   

Cheers,

Dan
  
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On 
> Behalf Of Graeme Rymill
> Sent: 22 June 2006 06:37
> To: Project Wombat
> Subject: [PW] Re: 1986 Huxley memorial debate
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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