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Date: Fri, 23-Dec-83 20:36:54 EST
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From:            Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE>

I just read Feingold's flame and agree heartily except with his somewhat 
fearful outrage.  I guess I can't really get too worried about creationism as
a threat to physics. I have faith that the truth will out. Phlogiston, aether,
Ptolemy's celestial spheres, and other such have dropped away naturally under
the inexorable advance of scientific investigation. From Galileo's vantage
point things must have looked bleak also.

Perhaps the weakest feature of creationism is that it is a dead theory. Like
proofs of the existence of God it seems to consist mainly of rebuttals to 
unbelievers. With no positive predictive power it relegetes itself to the 
obscure list of curiosities. Creationism like McCarthy, Agnew, George Lincoln
Rockwell, Lenin, and the Yippies will not survive massive benign neglect.

  --Charlie