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- From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
- Subject: He's baa-aack (Cotera).
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171313@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <2B53B66F.8366@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:13:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, cotera@woods.ulowell.edu
- writes:
- >Creationism relies on the assumption that God exists and was insrumental in
- the
- >origin of the universe and everything in it. Evolution, on the other hand,
- >relies on the assumption that He doesn't exist, or if He does, He doesn't
- >interfere with the natural processes of the universe. Neither of these
- >assumptions have been proved to be valid. Yet the assumption made is crucial
- >to the interpretation of the data. No one has disproved God's existence, so I
- >see no reason to prefer one view over the other (from a scientific viewpoint
- >that is).
-
- As has been said many, many, many^75, times evolution has the
- non-involvement of God as a conclusion not as an assumption. There
- is nothing that looks like divine intervention anywhere in the
- evidence. Not one book on or paper about evolution goes
- "assume there is no God, it therefore follows that..."
-
- Cotera has been told this both politely and rudely in the past
- and, in typically dishonest creationist fashion, has not taken
- cognizance. I think the problem is that he views any work not
- of the form "This follows from God because..." as having the
- nonexistence of God as a hypothisis.
-
- Cotera, how can you stand to be a lying weasle faced ignoramus
- so ugly that the clue fairy runs in terror at the first whiff of
- your bilabial fricative logic?
-
- Have you stopped beating your wife?
-
- Dan
- Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
- (so I'm frustrated at his impenetrability. Sue me.)
-