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From: dk@browngr.UUCP (Dave Kantrowitz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Some evidence for creationism.
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 12:54:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 28 12:54:06 1984
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		    Approximately 3000 years ago, 600,000 men and many
additional women and children witnessed a revelation of God's presence in the
world.	Most of the rest of the world accepted this data.

Let us assume this revelation did not occur.  What happened?

Did 600,000 people lie?  How could they coordinate such a consistent lie without
mass media?  How could so many people all agree to lie?  And who would believe
them?  (the actual event was reportedly felt around the world)

Did some individual or small group perpetrate a lie?  This would solve the
problems of mass media, but who could you convince without showing them the
people?

As a scientist or historian, one must find the most probable explanation for
all pieces of evidence.  It certainly seems more probable to take history
on face value, instead of contriving a story about people spreading myths and
lies.  If you think otherwise, let's see you convince a million people that
they have seen something they have not seen.  Or let's see you convince a
million people that their parents have seen something that their parents refuse
to admit having seen.