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Subject: Re: Creation vs. Evolution - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 04:29:30 EST
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uiuccsb!eich    Dec  4 01:58:00 1983

It's interesting to note that, Velikhovsky notwithstanding,
Catastrophism has become much more in vogue theoretically.  Theories
concerning the extinction of the dinosaurs (by meteor strike) and
punctuated evolution (mutations possibly caused by nearby super-novae)
are examples.  Science marches on, yes, but there is an (slight)
element of intellectual fashion in the degree to which catastrophist vs
uniform theories are devised; it's not all Occam's razor applied to an
infinite number of postulates.