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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: What are the members of the set of possibilities?
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Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 15:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 14 15:44:44 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:09:58 EDT
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% [Dick Dunn]
% If you're going to try to support creationism by
% disproving evolutionism, you can't succeed; there are more than two
% theories in the universe.

This statement has been made several times on the net, usually
to point out that creationists are sometimes guilty of acting
as though there is a simple dichotomy:

		creation vs. evolution

As Dick points out, it is of course true that when there are > two
theories to consider, one cannot prove any particular theory by
discrediting any particular other theory.  There may be others
left untouched.  My question is:  by saying there are more than
two theories, do you mean non-creation/non-evolutionary theories,
or rather that there is more than a single evolutionary theory?
(For example, the set [classical Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism,
saltatory evolution])
If the former alternative, please specify what you refer to.

By the way, "you" in that question means anyone who has made a
statement similar to Dick's;  it doesn't mean Dick should answer
and no one else.  All comments welcome.
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

"I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth."
					Romans 1:23