The REALL News - January 1996

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <p align="center"><i>"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><b>Volume 4 Issue 1</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%"><b>January 1996</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h2 align="center">In This Issue</h2> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="feature1.html">Evolution's River of Life</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="feature2.html">Armageddon's River of Blood</a>, by Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">1993-1995 Subject and Author Indexes</a></li> <li><a href="in-short.html">Ten Important Criteria for Determining What is Science</a></li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><table border="0" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><h2>Of Evolution and the Supernatural</h2> <p align="center"><b>Book Reviews by David Bloomberg and Bob Ladendorf</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"><h2 align="center">Evolutions<br> River of Life</h2> <p align="center"><b>by David Bloomberg</b></p> <p>Book Review: <i>River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life</i>, by Richard Dawkins, Basic Books, The Science Masters Series.</p> <p>Those familiar with Richard Dawkins and his previous writings (<i>The Blind Watchmaker</i>, <i>The Extended Phenotype</i>, <i>The Selfish Gene</i>) may find the title of this book to be a bit odd. Dawkins is a strict Darwinian scientist who takes numerous opportunities throughout his works to put forth the evidence for evolution and against creationism. So why reference the biblical story of Eden? <a href="feature1.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><h2 align="center">Armageddons<br> River of Blood</h2> <p align="center"><b>by Bob Ladendorf</b></p> <p>Book Review: <i>An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural</i> "exposed by" James Randi, St. Martins Press, New York, 1995.</p> <p>This is a book that I would like to see in every library, every newspaper office, and every TV news and entertainment office, maybe even alongside those Funk and Wagnalls in the grocery stores. Perhaps Randis long subtitle will give you a quick picture of this 284-page encyclopedia: "James Randis Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities."<a href="feature2.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p>   </body>