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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Evolution predicts nothing by predicting everything
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 23:13:46 EDT
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> Therefore I think that the problem that Paul points out is a
> non-existant one.  Evolution predicts that species will evolve in
> response to the environment.  Paul's objection is similar to saying that
> Newton's laws are non-predictive because they predict that objects will
> "Proceed in straight lines.  Or they'll curve.  Or they'll stay
> still.  Or they'll accelerate.  Some prediction." [WAYNE THROOP]

Note that creationists are basically religionist in nature ["YOU'RE KIDDING?"
-ED.], and that if a system of prediction doesn't "work" for them, resulting
in the kinds of answers they want about the world, they out of hand reject
it, preferring their own system that does provide the kind of answers they
want, regardless of their accuracy.
-- 
Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr