[meteorite-list] An Anthropologist's look at Kansas:Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

From: MarkF <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 13 16:05:41 2005
Message-ID: <000a01c557f7$15f0ac00$e341fc04_at_MAF>

make for an unlimited supply of turtle soup, eh?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com>
To: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] An Anthropologist's look at Kansas:Creation,
Evolution and Intelligent Design


> Michael L Blood wrote:
>>> oh, don't forget the world rests on the back of a turtle! <<
>
> Thomas Huxley was once confronted during one of his lectures by an
> elderly
> woman who was an ardent supporter of the Theosophist version of the Hindu
> cosmology of the world resting on the back of a turtle. He thought he
> could
> short-circuit this rather long-winded questioner by asking her, "And pray
> tell us,
> madam, what is the turtle standing on?"
> The woman pointed her umbrella at him accusingly, "It's no use, young
> man; you
> can't wiggle out of it so easily -- it's Turtles all the way down!!"
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
>
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