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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Creationism in our schools and the Anti-Dogma statement
Message-ID: <1884@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 89 18:32:52 GMT
References: <8558@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <2630002@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <13338@cup.portal.com> <206@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <206@maths.tcd.ie> ftoomey@maths.tcd.ie (Fergal Toomey) writes:
>
>The way I see it, the difference between Creationism and Darwinism is
>essentially the difference between pseudo-science and science.

Which you then proceed to contradict.

>Just what is so scientific about Darwinism
>and so unscientific about Creationism? To date, nobody has managed to pin
>down this difference (if it exists).

Some clews:

/-------------------------------------------------------\
|   Darwinism		  |	Creationism		|
--------------------------------------------------------|
| Collect evidence.	  |	What evidence?		|
|			  |	(Oh, you mean those	|
|			  |	dogmatically prepared	|
|			  |	gedanken experiments	|
|			  |	and ancient legends...) |
|			  |				|
| Fit hypotheses to data. |	Fit data to hypotheses. |
\-------------------------------------------------------/

				--Blair
				  "I can feel myself evolving
				   even now..."