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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Subject: Re: Who does Phillip Johnson think the creationists are?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.092147.22722@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <2B53B66F.8366@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:21:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
-
- Oh God, he's back.
-
- >The "Pre-Cambrian Explosion" is a term used to describe the sudden formation of
- >life on Earth. This suddenness supports Creationism.
-
- 1. How?
- 2. "Sudden" is a *VERY* relative term. The "explosion" was "sudden" in
- geologic time-scales, but you can be sure it took quite a bit more
- than 6000 years, not to mention 7 days.
-
- There are thousands
- >of cases where people have been miraculously healed of ailments (only after
- >praying to God to be healed). This supports the theory that God exists, and
- >therefore, Creationism.
-
- I have to take issue with this. The existence of God *in* *no* *way*
- proves creationism.
- Repeat this until you understand it.
-
- Tero Sand
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- "I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating
- too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an
- intestinal disorder, not a revelation." - Reverend Jerry Falwell
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