Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Phillip Driscoll wrote:

[snippage]

> > --Ph. D.
>
> Is that, as creationists like to say, an "earned" Ph.D.?

Presumably it was awarded to him by his parents. Perhaps the "." after
"Ph" should historically be a colon, however, as in "Sam: Johnson".

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