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From: dross@rocky2.UUCP (David Ross)
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Subject: Re: The Source of All Things
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 19:47:21 EST
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Someone claiming to be the infamous :-) Duane Gish writes:

>      I am amused by what you secular humanist evolutionists base your theories
> on the origins of the human species on.  All you have is a bunch of bones, some
> carbon and radiometric dating machines, mass spectrometers, and a flimsy book
> titled "The Origin of Species".  These are nothing compared to the holy writ 
> of God found in the Book of Genesis.
>      My theory of the origin of life on this planet is based on irrefutable
> word of God himself.  One needs nothing else to base a scientific theory than
> the Source of All Things.  I pray that Jesus will show you the way to the Truth
> and Light before you meet the Father on the Day of Judgement.
     
> -- 

> 		Duane Gish
>		Institute for Creation Research
>		San Diego, California

	Now, in the seventeenth century, the Church thought that the "word
of G-d" said that the earth was fixed and at the center of the universe.
This was considered irrefutable, as Galileo found to his sorrow. I'm really 
curious as to why Mr. Gish and his fellow creationists believe that the case
for special creation is any stronger than for a geocentric universe, if the
*only* evidence is the Bible.

	The Bible's moral validity does *not* extend to science. This is not a
criticism of the Bible, only of those who try to stretch it past its limits.


	David Ross (New York University Medical Center)

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