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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Velikovsky, Einstein, and Cohen
- Message-ID: <1647@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:43:46 GMT
- References: <1590@tdat.teradata.COM> <169@fedfil.UUCP> <1614@tdat.teradata.COM> <1992Dec15.205012.10119@cis.uab.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.205012.10119@cis.uab.edu>, hamilton@hitler.uucp writes:
- |> In article <1614@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
- |> >Oh, just lovely, such *reliable* sources, NOT!
- |> >If the Avon Guide is the little pink pocket size, it is a piece of trash.
- |> ^^
- |>
- |> I think that Stan Friesen is confused about which dinosaur field
- |> guide is which. The larger one must be the Avon guide since the
- |> small pink one is the Mary Kay field guide.
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- Notice, I *did* say 'if'! (p.s. that means I was aware my memory was incomplete).
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- If I posted from home I could have looked it up (I have the larger green one).
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- The bigger green one (presumably the Avon Guide) is *decent*, as a beginners book.
- It is still hopelessly out of date (the number of new finds in the last 5 years
- is stupendous). Also, it gives size/shape silhouettes for *every* genus, even
- those known only from a few isolated bones (thus subtly suggesting more certainty
- than is actually justified).
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- I would never use it for more than a very basic ID of a type of dinosaur.
-
- The small pink one I would not even buy!
-
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