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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: baloney
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 15:14:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 15:14:58 1984
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[Meaningless verbiage]

>>Why didn't the creator use the SAME molecules for the same functions in
>>different criters (kinds or species). ...

>That's sounds very arrogant...
>Don't be so hasty to think that current scientific knowledge has the ultimate
>say on anything.  And if God is the author, how much more so.

This has been said before on this newsgroup, and needs to be said again.
Science can only accept hypotheses based on observations.  An omnipotent
being, with indecipherable motives, can do anything for any reason.
One can never conclude that creation by an omnipotent being at any
time *including yesterday* (or last hour) is impossible.  One can only
conclude that the evidence points toward an old Earth with evolving life.
If God can do anything he can certainly fake the evidence.

                         
"I can't help it if my     Ethan Vishniac
    knee jerks"         {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                           Department of Astronomy
                           University of Texas
                           Austin, Texas 78712