Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: sci.space or talk.origins? (was Re: Creationists and Moon Dust) Message-ID: <1519@ke4zv.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 90 00:29:02 GMT References: <7470005@hpfcso.HP.COM> <1990Nov9.223440.5571@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) Organization: Gannett Technologies Group Lines: 27 Sorry I couldn't take this to Email guys. In article <1990Nov9.223440.5571@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> lvron@earth.lerc.nasa.gov writes: > >Guys, I don't normally care for folks who say "this topic doesn't belong >here." But I'm going to say it now. This topic, at least addressed from >the perspective of preparing for debate, doesn't belong here. They have >a group where it does belong. It's called talk.origins. > >This is coming from the point of view of a "creationist" who doesn't >care how old the world is, or the mechanism by which it was made: only >who started the mechanism. Some folks do believe that. Be careful not >to assume all folks are the same. And if you want to flame me, kindly >do it e-mail. The flames don't belong here either. I've got to ask what a creationist with this unscientific attitude is doing in a sci group or for that matter receiving my tax dollars at a public scientific institution. Don't you belong in a Monastary sir? I've got no quarrel with someone who might say God created the big bang, now let's work out the science from there. But someone who says God created the Universe and then declares that that is all that counts and disavows any interest in working out the science can't claim to be a scientist or be trusted to do scientific work. I don't want to start a flame war over this, but felt it had to be said. Gary