Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: What are the members of the set of possibilities? Message-ID: <303@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 15:44:44 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.303 Posted: Fri Sep 14 15:44:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:09:58 EDT Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 31 % [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