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- From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
- Subject: Re: Scientific creationism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.221040.10860@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:10:40 GMT
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- jpalmer writes
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- > Scientific Creationism is a movement founded on the assumption that, even
- >if there is evolution, God could still have created the universe as the bible
- >states.
- >
- > The bible has parables; therre are fools who claim that god created the
- >world in 144 hours as we measure them today, but there are good, solid pieces
- >of evidence that specifically allow for biblical creation (one of the first
- >and
- >most important is the time frame and another is the lack of fossil chains)
- >
- There are two things
- a) what is a 'time frame' and how does it relate to anything?
- b) lack of fossil chains hardly seems to be solid evidence unless you
- can prove that such do not exist, as opposed to just being undiscovered.
- I would suggest that we have unearthed a minute fraction of all fossils,
- and so anything based on lack of fossil evidence would be extremely
- uncertain.
-
- > While you can and should ridicule the idea that God MUST have done this,
- >after all, the bible seems to have said so, be careful ridiculing someone for
- >the word 'creationism'. All the word indicates is a belief that God, in fact,
- >
- >did have a hand in creation.
-
- I would disagree with such a "weak" defination of creationism, all the
- creationist material that I have read, have the much stonger
- "world made in 7 days" type. If you define creationism as you have done,
- then I think that anybody who believes in God, not matter what kind
- would be a creationist, as what point is there in a god who doesn't
- have a hand in creation?
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- "Any intelligent man would find a humilation caused by his own
- slackness more painful to bear than death, when death comes to him
- unpercieved, in battle, and in the confidence of his patriotism..."
- Thucydides II 45
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