Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why is WikiPedia so slow?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> While I would say that I am not totally won over to the theory of 
> evolution, I do think that it is a very decent theory.  I recently read 
> some of the intelligent design literature, and found it very 
> unimpressive.  I read a creationist book about 15 years ago, and got the 
> sense that they were trying to pull something over on me.  In contrast, 
> much of the pro-evolution literature is much more coherent.

I had forgotten - I had also very recently seen part one of a DVD set 
from a creationist institute.  Since it was the first part it was 
perhaps more introductionary than I would have liked.  But I felt that 
his only substantive point was to ask how all the elements of the 
periodic table could have been formed.  He explained that nuclear fusion 
can only create elements up to ion.

I checked it out on the internet, and found that while he was 
technically correct, that there is a process called "neutrino capture" 
that does explain how the heavier elements were created.

My sense is that a lot of creationist literature suffers from this kind 
of flaw.

Stephen

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