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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Creationism is not science.
Message-ID: <1185@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 14:37:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 14:37:02 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Sep-84 03:09:20 EDT
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The creationists' notions as to how life got going (heh, I almost
said "evolved") on earth are perfectly acceptable notions.  BUT
THEY ARE NOT SCIENCE.  All creationist propositions need one or
more gods to work the machinery.  But if the explanation is not
naturalistic, it's not science.  By definition!  This does not
make creationism wrong, merely unscientific.  Indeed, the literal
Biblical account could be completely correct, and science--restricted
to natural explanations of things--would never stumble across it,
even if every point in current evolutionary theory were proved false!
Science doesn't explain everything--perhaps that's why so many
scientists are very religious.

So, creationists, why do you feel the need to demean your theology
with axiomatically unattainable scientific legitimacy?  I mean,
belief in the Bible is nothing to be ashamed of.  It's nothing to
put in public school science curricula either.
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