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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: One Might Say That
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 16:33:19 EDT
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> [Stanley Friesen]
> 	But creationism is *not* falsifiable in the scientific sense,
> since for any concievable observation I might make, you can say,
> "But God *made* it that way", He could even have created the Universe
> complete with a past(see other postings).

True, one might always say that.  That does not mean, however, that one
*does* say it for every conceivable observation that comes up.  It
seems to me that most creationists have no wish to explain *everything*
by recourse to the supernatural.  It is more that, not being convinced
that *everything* can be explained on the basis of the natural, some
events (i.e., origin of life) are then thought not to have a
naturalistic basis.

> Evolutionary theory, as a
> theory of a process, at least predicts that a certain *class* of
> observations will occur as a result of the process, all of which are
> in fact observed.

Yes, it does.  They'll get more complex.  Or they'll get simpler.  Or
they'll stay the same.  Some prediction.

Or did you have something else in mind?
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