CeilingCat
Posts: 2363 Joined: Dec. 2007
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Young Salvadore Screws Up
Though few will believe it, Salvadore Cordova's scholarship is sometimes less than perfect. An example can be found here: Quote | As an aside, Fisher’s theorem was controversial and misunderstood until the Creationist George R. Price reformulated it. The new version of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem by creationist George Price can be found at Wiki here. |
Hmmm... George R. Price, creationist? A creationist making a major contribution to a subject that he by definition doesn't even believe in? Doesn't sound too likely. Let's look at the wiki article that Salvadore quotes from. Here's a clue, in the first paragraph: Quote | A troubled man, Price converted to Christianity from atheism, and after giving all his possessions to the poor, committed suicide. | Okay, he was a Christian when he killed himself. But apparently that was only a late phase in his life, for the same article states Quote | In 1947 he married Julia Madigan, but their relationship was contentious because George was a militant atheist whilst his wife was a practicing Roman Catholic. | His conversion was evidently a little dramatic: Quote | On 6 June 1970, Price had a religious experience and became an ardent scholar of the New Testament. He believed that there had been too many coincidences in his life. In particular, he wrote a lengthy essay entitled The Twelve Days of Easter, arguing that the calendar of events surrounding Jesus of Nazareth's death in Easter Week was actually slightly longer. Later he turned away from Biblical scholarship and instead dedicated his life to social work, helping the needy of North London. | So he was a liberal Christian. But a creationist? Quote | He then dedicated his life to helping the homeless, and invited many homeless people to live in his house. Sometimes, when the people in his house became a distraction, he slept in his office at the Galton Laboratory. At one point a violent man whose partner he had helped escape caused trouble at the office, however, he was able to smooth this over with the lab.
He was eventually thrown out of his rented house due to a construction project in the area, which made him unhappy because he could no longer provide housing for the homeless. He moved to various squats in the North London area, where he committed suicide with a pair of nail scissors by slashing his throat at Christmas 1974. Friends said he committed suicide because of despondency over his inability to continue helping the homeless. | Ugh! Slashing his throat with a pair of nail scissors! Okay, Mr. Price ended his days as a Christian, but where did Mr. Cordova get the idea that he was a creationist?
Here's a clue: Type "George Price" into Wikipedia's search box. You get this response: Quote | George Price is the name of:
George Price (New Yorker cartoonist) (1901–1995) George B. Price, (born 1929) U.S. Army brigadier general, retired George Cadle Price (born 1919), former prime minister of Belize George E. Price, member, West Virginia Senate 1885 to 1889. George Lawrence Price (1898–1918), the last Commonwealth of Nations soldier killed in combat during World War I George McCready Price (1870–1963), Canadian creationist <<<<<<<<<<----- CLUE! CLUE! CLUE! George R. Price (1922–1975), US scientist, evolutionary theorist.
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So young Salvadore made a very common error. Honestly, who doesn't occasionally mistake a Canadian Seventh-Day Adventist Creationist nutbag for a troubled scientist who converts to Christianity and then cuts his throat with a pair of nail scissors when he can't make it work. Any ID scholar could make that kind of mistake.
Edited to bold "CLUE!".
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