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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re: Why Creation?
Message-ID: <31@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 09:02:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 21 09:02:43 1985
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> In article <541@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
> >   "Scientific creationism" is a self-contradictory, nonsense phrase
> >precisely because it cannot be falsified.  I can envision observations
> >and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know, but
> >I cannot imagine what potential data could lead creationists to abandon
> >their beliefs.  Unbeatable systems are dogma, not science. " 
> >
> >Keith Doyle
> >#  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
> 
>    This is not true. If science could observe a transmutation, this would
>    disprove creation. Since many evolutionists have abandoned gradualism,
>    this may not be unreasonable! Also, if scientists could produce life
>    in a laboratory (not just the building blocks of life, but LIFE),
>    this would also disprove creation. As creation holds that only the
>    creator can create.
>    If the fossils can produce a clear cut transitional species, this
>    may also do the job.
> 
>    Though creation as a religious belief is not falsifiable,
>    creation SCIENCE is falsifiable.
> 
Sorry, but no.  Putting on my Creationist hat :-) I could respond that
"God made it *appear* that a transmutation had occurred, but in fact
it was just a miracle He performed".  You see, you can't get out of
miracles when you explain everything by an almightly deity.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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