Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Job 31:24 (part 3 of 6) Message-ID: <757@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 13:23:47 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.757 Posted: Wed Feb 27 13:23:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 03:16:28 EST References: <731@uwmacc.UUCP> <617@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 22 > [Jeff Sonntag] > It seems then, as though creationists must choose to either: > 1.) Choose one of the types of creationism which *can* explain the age > of the fossil record, and the fact that species arrived at > widely seperate times. > 2.) Debate about the actual age of the fossil record, perhaps adhering > to the recently proposed concept of time-varying radioisotope decay > rates to explain the *apparent* age of the record. > 3.) Do neither of the above and ignore the parts of reality which don't > match up with your pet theories. Or suspend judgment in the face of ambivalence towards all theories. I do not accept that one has to choose if one does not feel that any particular view is strong enough to command one's loyalty. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois | --+-- "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but | the honor of kings is to search out a matter" | Proverbs 25:2