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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Attribution of contorted machinations
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 12:37:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 12:37:57 1983
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As an answer to my question, "To what should I attribute the contorted
machinations of creationist doctrine?" (... in view of the fact that
religious conviction doesn't preclude rational thought), uiuccsb!eich
suggests that evolution being "... still an area where contested legitimate
theories clash, is ripe for `debunking' from a `scientific' standpoint."

I agree that this accounts for a lot of said machinations, though not
the most contorted of them. The creationist attack on conventional Natural
History is so thoroughgoing that its selfmade characterization as an
alternative to Darwinism is itself a gigantic contortion. One need not
even consider the mere existence of life on earth before one runs headlong
into creationists' bizarre contentions. I refer to their accounts of
geologic strata according to various "flood" theories, and to their rehashes
of physical theory, of which Barry Setterfield's is an example.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew