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From: johnston@spp1.UUCP (Micheal L. Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Dearest A Ray Miller
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 11:53:45 EST
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> THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF CREATIONISM:
> 
> When it comes down to the foundation of creationism, it is the divine
> creator that holds everything together.  Without that, the theory is
> meaningless.  Now, how in the world does one go about proving the
> existence of a creator (assuming that one is able to clearly define it
> in the first place)?  What's more important, how does one go about
> disproving the existence of a creator?  The answer is:  You can't!
> A divine creator is supernatural; that is, it is beyond the norms of
> nature in its characteristics and/or behavior.  It is impossible for
> any of the natural sciences to explain it.  Therefore, to assume the
> existence of a creator, which the creationists are doing (refer to
> the membership requirements of the ICR and the CRS), is unjustifiable
> in science.  Since one cannot assume it, one must prove it, being that
> everything else sits upon that assertion.  

But all theories have their assumptions. Evolution bases quite a bit on
fossil records and the age there of. Those ages, for the most part are
based on radioactive dating techniques which assume that radioactive
elements decayed in the same mannner that they do now.

> Within science, that proof
> is impossible.

> KEEBLER

Proof doesn't even pertain to the origins question. No proof is possible
that something that happened in the past, before records, happened a
certain way. All we can do is develop theories and see how the evidence
matches those theories.

		Mike Johnston