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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: creationism topics
Message-ID: <2286@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 14:51:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 14:51:40 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:08:38 EDT
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Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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Summary: 

In article  lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) writes:
>> 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!

Nobody ever said creationists couldn't have things 'beyond the realm
of science,' only that such things cannot be critical to any scientific
theory.  Evolutionary theory doesn't have to deal with the genesis of
matter because the scope of evolutionaty is only (!) the development
of life forms.  Creationists explicitly include the unobservable as
the creator of all life forms.  Having done so, they have expressly
brought it within their theoretical scope and thus should not be shocked
when they are asked to account for it.

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						Byron C. Howes
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