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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 17)
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 01:11:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 01:11:53 1985
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In Message <359@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes:

>     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE
>
>    C.  NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT  THE  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  LIFE  ARE  SO
>        COMPLEX  THAT CHANCE AND EVEN BILLIONS OF YEARS CANNOT EXPLAIN
>        IT.
>
>       29.  Computer-generated  comparisons  have  been  made  of  the
>            sequences  of  amino acids that comprise a protein that is
>            common to almost all forms of animal and plant  life.  The
>            results of this study seriously contradict the predictions
>            of the theory of evolution [a-d].
>
>            a)  Personal communication from Robert Bayne Brown.
>            b)  Ginny Gray, ''Student Project 'Rattles'  Science  Fair
>                Judges,'' ISSUES AND ANSWERS, December 1980, p. 3.
>            c)  Robert  Bayne  Brown,  ABSTRACTS:  31ST  INTERNATIONAL
>                SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR (Washington D.C.: Science
>                Service, 1980), p. 113.
>            d)  Dr. Colin Patterson is the Senior Principal Scientific
>                Officer in the Palaeontology Department at the British
>                Museum of Natural History.   In  a  talk  he  gave  on
>                November  5,  1981  to  leading  evolutionists  at the
>                American Museum of Natural History, he presented  some
>                new  data  on amino acid sequences in several proteins
>                of a number of animals.  The  relationships  of  these
>                animals,  according  to  evolutionary theory, has been
>                taught in classrooms for many decades.  Dr.  Patterson
>                pointed  out  to a stunned audience that this new data
>                contradicts the theory of  evolution.  In  his  words,
>                ''The  theory makes a prediction; we've tested it, and
>                the prediction is falsified precisely.''  Although  he
>                acknowledged  that  scientific  falsification is never
>                absolute, the thrust of his entire talk  was  that  he
>                now  realized  that ''evolution was a faith,'' that he
>                had ''been duped into  taking  evolution  as  revealed
>                truth  in  some  way,''  and ''that evolution not only
>                conveys  no  knowledge  but  seems  to  convey   anti-
>                knowledge,  apparent  knowledge  which  is  harmful to
>                systematics  [the  science  of  classifying  different
>                forms   of  life].''  [''Prominent  British  Scientist
>                Challenges    Evolution    Theory,''    Audio     Tape
>                Transcription  and  Summary by Luther D. Sunderland, 5
>                Griffin Drive, Apalachin, New  York  13732.  Also  see
>                Luther  D. Sunderland and Gary E. Parker, ''Evolution?
>                Prominent Scientist Reconsiders,'' ICR IMPACT, No.108,
>                June 1982.]
>
>				Ron Kukuk
>				Walt Brown

You boys are going to get real SOMEday, right?  What the h*ll kind of
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE is this crap?!?!  "Somebody else (a "Prominent
British Scientist" no less!) says that there's a prediction made by a
theory and there's data that contradicts it."  Well what the h*ll is
the prediction, and what the h*ll is the data, and why the h*ll does
the unspecified data contradict the unspecified prediction?!?!?!?!  If
you really do have evidence, then post it.  But direct the above
garbage to /dev/null.  Get it out of here.

-- 

--JB                                             "The giant is awake."

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