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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Out-of-Context Quote-of-the-Month.  July 1985.
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:08:25 EDT
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> Comment:
> 
> Dobzhansky falls into the error of supposing that he knows what a
> creator would do, in asking what the good of having 2 or 3 million
> species is.  How does he know?  We cannot say one way or the other,
> without some form of revelation, which, I think, Dobzhansky would not
> claim to be party to.

And since we don't know what a creator would do, creationism cannot predict
anything except through the sort of second-guessing you're reviling. Thus
creationism isn't a scientific theory. You can believe in it if you want,
but don't presume to call it science.