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Gish Gone

I wouldn't go so far as to say that I'm glad that anybody is dead, but this fellow certainly did his part to hinder science education.
 
So since there are no intermediate fossils and a single protein molecule can't emerge by chance doesn't the Piltdown man hoax show that Dawinists have gotten it wrong?

I'll never stop using the term "Gish Gallop" that will never die.
 
I think Bette Davis' comment on hearing of Joan Crawford's demise bears repeating.
 
Mark Twain: “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
 
Another one is: I would never have wished him harm in life, but it gives me great pleasure to be able to read his obituary.
 
In The Bullfrog Affair, he made a curious claim about which animals' proteins have the closest sequences to human ones. In 1982, biochemist Russell Doolittle recalled sequencing several species' proteins and comparing them to their human counterparts. Chimpanzee ones were the closest, and chimps and other species had the relative distances that one would expect from evolutionary biology -- chimp, rhesus monkey, rabbit, chicken, fish.

Duane Gish responded with
"If we look at certain proteins, yes man then, it can be assumed that man is more closely related to a chimpanzee than other things. But, on the other hand, if you look at certain proteins, you will find that man is more closely related to a bullfrog than he is to a chimpanzee. If you focus your attention on other proteins, you'll find that man is more closely related to a chicken than he is to a chimpanzee.
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But despite the intensive efforts of Robert Schadewald and others, he never delivered on his claim. RS also asked Russell Doolittle about this, and RD delivered a lot of support for his claim. Nowadays, it should be easy to test that claim with the great volume of gene and protein data now available, including genome sequences.
 
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