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From: rmooney@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Creationism considered falsifiable - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 22:36:41 EST
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uicsl!rmooney    Mar  8 11:43:00 1984


    The idea of creationism (i.e. that life the universe etc. were created
by a supernatural being) is *not* falsifiable.  Maybe particular "models"
of creationism which demand the occurence of a particular testable and 
falsifiable event can be falsified but the overall idea cannot be falsified
since the supernatural can be used to account for *anything*. See Re: 
Creationism & Falsification.
      
        Ray Mooney
        ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!rmooney
        University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign