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I have just checked my university's (Edith Cowan University
http://www.ecu.edu.au/) on-line results in case they had been
posted earlier than next Monday and they had!

I passed all three subjects with distinctions, including two High
Distinctions, one in Human Evolution. That means I have passed my
Biology degree(!), although the degree will not be awarded until
the graduation ceremony next March.

For the record (to prevent my opponents from claiming that I must have
only just scraped through), my results were all distinctions but one (a
credit - one mark less than a distinction, to keep me humble! <g>). My
average over the whole course was 78.82%, just short of a High Distinction
average.

The breakdown is as follows:

High Distinctions (80%+) 9
Distinctions (70-79%) 13
Credits (60-69%) 1
Total units 23

The course was actually only 22 units, but I took Human Evolution as an
approved extra unit, making 23 units total.

Again I praise God for seeing me through this. Without His guidance and
overruling providence, I would never have got past the first unit!

I also pay tribute to my lecturers. Although most were atheist
evolutionists, a more kindly, caring, knowledgeable set of human beings
one could not have wished for.

Finally, I pay tribute to my dear wife of 30+ years, Rosemary, my
soul mate and the light of my life, for her putting up with an often
sleep-deprived, socially-deprived, student for a husband, these last
5 years!

Steve

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"I have no metaphysical necessity driving me to propose the
miraculous action of the evident finger of God as a scientific
hypothesis. In my world view, *all* natural forces and events are fully
contingent on the free choice of the sovereign God. Thus, neither an
adequate nor an inadequate `neo-Darwinism' (as mechanism) holds
any terrors. But that is *not* what the data looks like. And I feel no
metaphysical necessity to *exclude* the evident finger of God."
(Wilcox D.L., "Tamed Tornadoes," in Buell J. & Hearn V., eds.,
"Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?," Foundation for Thought and
Ethics: Richardson TX, 1994, p.215. Emphasis in original.
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/fte/darwinism/chapter13b.html)
Stephen E. Jones http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones
Moderator: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CreationEvolutionDesign
& http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProblemsOfEvolution/
"Problems of Evolution" http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/pe00cont.html
& http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProblemsOfEvolution/
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