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- From: pduggan@world.std.com (Paul C Duggan)
- Subject: Re: They want to debate Phillip Johnson
- Message-ID: <C1DrDw.39y@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <qXiuXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> <1993Jan24.134326@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:49:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.134326@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
- >In article <qXiuXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>,
- >system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >>The basis of Darwinism is materialism, i.e. the proposition that
- >>there is nothing in existence except matter and material energy, and
- >>nothing ever influences matter except other matter or material energy.
- >
- > False.
- >[...]
- > If you cannot devise a test for these things, then they might as well not
- >exist. What difference does it make?
-
- A test that a scientist would use would be a test involving material energy
- or matter, would it not? So how is that you describe the materialist
- presupposition of Darwinism as "False"? You seem to be saying the
- exact same thing by your request for a material test.
-
- Am I mistaken?
-
- paul duggan
-