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- From: ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles)
- Subject: Re: Lionel Tun: evolutionary relic.
- Message-ID: <#VW=Bk_@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 02:57:36 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Dec21.045654.38203@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.045654.38203@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jsg1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JONATHAN SCOTT GIBSON) writes:
- >In article <ksand-191292144210@wintermute.apple.com>, ksand@apple.com (Kent Sand
- >vik ) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec18.133825@IASTATE.EDU>, danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A
- >>Ashlock) wrote:
- >>> Let me second a fellow poster: Care to post the theory of creation?
-
- >>Yeah, I've asked about that one now for two years, and nobody from
- >>the creation field has provided me with one...
-
- [long quote from Genesis deleted]
- [irrelevant (to talk.origins) diatribe about present moral decay deleted]
- > Jonathan Scott Gibson
- > JSG1@LEHIGH.EDU
-
- Uh, no, actually, what you posted was a story. A *theory* make predictions.
- A *scientific theory* makes *testable* predictions.
- In order to convince me that what you posted was a theory, you (or someone)
- should now detail, oh, three main predictions that this theory makes, and
- the evidence that backs up those predictions having been fulfilled. 'Kay?
-
- Sincerely,
- Ray Ingles
- ingles@engin.umich.edu
-
- They said there'd be snow at Christmas; They said there'd be peace on Earth.
- Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; The Christmas we get we deserve.
- -ELP, "I Believe in Father Christmas"
-