Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!rmooney From: rmooney@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Creationism considered falsifiable - (nf) Message-ID: <6085@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 22:36:41 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6085 Posted: Thu Mar 8 22:36:41 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 09:12:52 EST Lines: 14 #R:ihuxr:-95700:uicsl:7500053:000:508 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