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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: They want to debate Phillip Johnson
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:40:32 GMT
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- In article <1jvlmpINNl54@fido.asd.sgi.com>, livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
- |>
- |> I have always said, and I believe that at one time or another I've
- |> seen most of the posteres here say, that evolutionary theories are
- |> not statements about philosophical "truth" but are models that fit
- |> or don't fit the data. That being so, they are *always* open to
- |> new data, doubt and debate.
-
- Quite so.
-
- And in fact I have publically, in this forum, stated at least one line of
- evidence that, if it came to be, would cause me to re-evaluate my avcceptance
- of Darwinian evolution.
-
- Of course this is really of no help to the Creationists, since the alternate
- theory I would then switch to is *also* an old Earth theory, involving
- common ancestry for all (or most) living things on Earth.
-
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