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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re: Why Creation?
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 17:25:31 EST
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> [Mike Johnston]
> Which brings me to a more salient point. Creation concerns itself with an
> event that took place once and only once by definition. There can never be
> an observation proving or disproving it. Evolution is a process. The two
> can't really be compared as to observations. Any origins theory, which is
> the only thing creation can be compared with, also is neither provable or
> disprovable.

The once and only once is not *necessarily* a part of all possible creation
theories.  However, if the creation of any *particular* group occurs
discretely, then it is certainly true that no group could witness its
own creation.
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