Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!oliveb!ios!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: creationism topics Message-ID: <1407@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 15:07:46 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1407 Posted: Mon Oct 8 15:07:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:02:37 EDT References: <32500003@uiucdcsb.UUCP> <27700004@uicsl.UUCP> <1191@hao.UUCP> Organization: Asylum for Illegally Insane Lines: 22 > > ??? > > Creationists seem to think that since scientists need to postulate at least > > the initial existence of matter, then they are just as free to postulate the > > initial existence of God. > Mike Ward: > But scientists have no need to postulate the initial existence > of matter. They only need to postulate the existence of matter > at a certain point in time, and can very easily state that events > before that time, being unobservable, are beyond the realm of > science. (and quite possibly in the realm of religion) > What that point in time is, of course, depends on the current > state of mankind's ability to observe. So evolutionists can have things "beyond the realm of science" but creationists can't? That's hypocritical cheating! -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.