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Newsgroups: talk.origins Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!rpi!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ncrgw2!psinntp!pixar!markv From: markv@pixar.com (Mark T. VandeWettering) Subject: Re: Who does Phillip Johnson think the creationists are? Message-ID: <markv.728074408@pixar> Sender: news@pixar.com (Usenet Newsmaster) Nntp-Posting-Host: taz.pixar.com Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California References: <2B53B66F.8366@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:53:28 GMT Lines: 106 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. Evolution doesn't speak at all to the existance of God, positively or negatively. It does assume he doesn't interfere in the operation of the universe. The main reason that science does this is because there has never been an objective experiment performed which shows that God does this. Creationists (creation scientist is an oxymoron like sweet pickle) hide this fact by basically stating "You can't disprove it, therefore it could be so." Unfortunately, science doesn't work that way. >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). Your bias is clear later. Nobody has disproved that Bozo the Clown didn't create the universe either, therefore I have no reason to believe that he didn't (speaking purely scientifically) :-). >There are, in fact, institutions dedicated to Creation Science Research. Dedicated to thinly (VERY thinly) disguised evangelism. >> What is >> the scientific evidence for creationist claims? >The "Pre-Cambrian Explosion" is a term used to describe the sudden formation of >life on Earth. This suddenness supports Creationism. 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