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From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Falsifiability
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 17:17:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 17:17:12 1985
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The issue of falsifiability brings up a dead horse begging
to be flogged some more. Proving that modern evolutionary 
paradigms are invalid does nothing to prove the Creationist
paradigm is valid. Proving that all species were created
simultaneously by a single creator at some point in the past
does not prove modern evolutionary paradigms to be invalid.
Evolution and Creationism are apples and oranges, folks.
Am I wrong in suspecting that teh Creationist's true goal
is to establish the Bible as an authority in issues of
scientific, philosophical and social importance? The triumph
of Creationism being taught along with evolution in schools
would be one more precedent for the Bible as final arbitrator
in arguments of statewide (nationwide) concern. The ultimate
goal, I suspect, is not to prove that a particular God
created all species. It is to establish the Bible as the 
literal guidebook to societal and legal infrastructures
of the state (the USofA). 

Jim McCrae - Sytek, Mountain View CA