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[The talk.origins FAQ Archive Announcement, Part 1 of 2]

SUMMARY

        WWW:            http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/
        FTP:            ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/origins
        EMAIL:          mailto:bvickers=origins@ics.uci.edu


MOTIVATION

Perhaps no other Usenet newsgroup generates more Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs) -- or Frequently Rebutted Claims -- than
talk.origins.  It is for this reason that talk.origins has come to
have a very large number of highly detailed FAQ files.  In the past,
retrieving these FAQs was difficult due to the large number and
diverse locations of the authors.  To solve this problem, the
talk.origins FAQ archive was established.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The following is a list of questions that appear frequently in
talk.origins.  Brief answers follow each question along with a World
Wide Web URL pointing to one or more relevant FAQs that answer the
question in more detail.


[Q.]   What is the purpose of talk.origins?
[A.]   The purpose of talk.origins is to provide a forum for discussion of
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