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A recent talk.origins post (message-id <[email protected] >) shows a nice example of how creationists quietly sweep their blunders under a rug instead of forthrightly admitting them.

Long-time C/E debate followers are certainly aware of John Woodmorappe's sneaky median/mean switcharoo in his "Noah's Ark Feasibility Study" and in the associated ICR Impact article #273.


In the current version of ICR impact article #273 ( http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-273.htm), paragraph #8 reads as follows:

Because there have been so many arguments which allege the impossibility of eight people caring for so many animals, I delved into actual manpower studies on the time required to care for a given number of animals under various conditions. It turns out that simple labor-saving techniques could have enabled eight people to care for 16,000 animals assuming the availability of only rustic tools, along with a 10-hour day, 6-day week, with time to spare.



However, if you use www.archive.org to dig up a year-old copy of that ICR Impact article, this is what you'll find in paragraph #8 (emphasis added):

Because there have been so many arguments which allege the impossibility of eight people caring for so many animals, I delved into actual manpower studies on the time required to care for a given number of animals under various conditions. It turns out that simple labor-saving techniques could have enabled eight people to care for 16,000 rat-sized animals assuming the availability of only rustic tools, along with a 10-hour day, 6-day week, with time to spare.


(An emacs "ediff" comparison of the two versions reveals this to be the only change in the article.)

beyelzu

everyone knows that kinds means rat sized species, so what the hell is the problem?

pangloss

Hell - I could care for 16,000 rats all by myself.

Shame that elephants are not rat-sized...

tgamble

They were before the flood! Lying evilutionist swine! You will burn in hell for your mockery of GOD's HOLY WORD! Evilution is a lie of the devil! IS SO! IS SO! IS SO!