I was recently reminded of an unusual article¹ which appeared many years ago in a leading science journal. The article had the fascinating sub-title, "Prius Dementat," a Latin phrase meaning "They First Make Mad." This was essentially a shortened form of an old proverb: "Whom the gods seek to destroy, they first make mad."

by Mark F. Horstemeyer, Ph.D. and John P. Baumgardner, Ph.D.

Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 4–9, 2003. Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, R. L. Ivey Jr. (Ed.), pp. 155–163, 2003.

I. Lord Kelvin Urged Geologists to Accept Limitations Set by Physics on the Earth's Age.