18 Year Olds

Farrell Till errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 02:24:19 -0700 (00934554259, 2.2.32.19990813092419.0096f734@midwest.net) 

TILL
Because of some blunt comments that I have made to some high school students
in recent days, I want to clarify my position about this age group.  From
having taught 18 to 20 year olds for 30 years, I think I can safely say that
they are generally unskilled in critical thinking.  However, this is not to
say that there aren't exceptions.  The next issue of *The Skeptical Review*
will have an article on the biblical description of locusts and grasshoppers
in Leviticus 11, and it was written by an 18 year old.  I considered it good
enough to publish.  I think that any inerrantists who may want to reply to
it will have difficulty discrediting the writer's claim that the biblical
writer made a likely error in describing insects as creatures with four legs.



Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net