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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: On the possibility of a scientific debate with creationists
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 09:09:26 EDT
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>                                   But it is important to understand
> the futility of attempting to engage in scientific debate with them,
> since they either do not understand, or reject, the basic rules of
> scientific reasoning.  

I agree with the above statement.  Recent discussion of the
second law of thermodynamics on the net demonstrates how creationist
are attempting to twist this law "to prove their point".

However, we cannot ignore creatinists as we ignore flat-earthers.
Creationist are a political/religious force that can do serious
damage to science just as Lysencoism damaged scientific progress
in the USSR.  We have to remember that most people in the US
including polititians have very little understanding of science.
The creationist are trying to appeal to the uninformed who cannot
distinguish between science and pseudoscience.
-- 
Yosi Hoshen, AT&T-IS
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho