Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: creationism topics Message-ID: <1191@hao.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 23:04:26 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1191 Posted: Fri Oct 5 23:04:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:04:01 EDT References: <32500003@uiucdcsb.UUCP> <27700004@uicsl.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 19 > 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. 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. -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!sa!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307