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  1. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!IASTATE.EDU!kv07
  3. From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
  4. Subject: Re: They want to debate Phillip Johnson
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan24.134326@IASTATE.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
  8. Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
  9. References:  <qXiuXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
  10. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:43:26 GMT
  11. Lines: 29
  12.  
  13. In article <qXiuXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>,
  14. system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
  15. >The basis of Darwinism is materialism, i.e. the proposition that 
  16. >there is nothing in existence except matter and material energy, and 
  17. >nothing ever influences matter except other matter or material energy.
  18.  
  19.   False.
  20.  
  21.   When you proposed other possible influences you were immediately asked how
  22. they could be tested for.  I can't think of a scientist anywhere who would
  23. hesitate to run any experiments necissary to determine these things.
  24.  
  25.   Your reply was a subjective test: one that works equally well for detecting
  26. pink elephants.
  27.  
  28.   If you now know of some objective test, please post it.
  29.  
  30.   If you cannot devise a test for these things, then they might as well not
  31. exist.  What difference does it make?
  32.  
  33.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  34. |                       Don't forget to chant:                         |
  35. |                                                                      |
  36. | What's the guys name on second base. I'm not asking who's on second. |
  37. |          Who's on first.  I don't know.  Third base.                 |
  38. |                                                                      |
  39. |                Kurt's disInfoline BBS Ames, Iowa                     |
  40. |              Conspiring against you for 110 years.                   |
  41.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  42.