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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!sagi.wistar.upenn.edu
  2. From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
  5. Message-ID: <97833@netnews.upenn.edu>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 17:02:53 GMT
  7. References: <97474@netnews.upenn.edu> <VcV9TB7w165w@kalki33>
  8. Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
  9. Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
  10. Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
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  13. In-reply-to: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
  14.  
  15. In article <VcV9TB7w165w@kalki33>, kalki33!system@lakes writes:
  16. >> >       Unless a model can be shown to be correct, then it is not
  17. >> >scientific to claim that the phenomenon occurred, is it?
  18.  
  19. >> I suppose you also agree that it was terribly unscientific to say that
  20. >> "supernovae occur" before 1987?  Crackpot time!
  21.  
  22. >When were supernovae first observed?
  23. >When was abiogenesis first observed?
  24.  
  25. Are you or are you not withdrawing your assertion about models being
  26. shown correct before it is scientific to claim phenomena occur?
  27. -- 
  28. -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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