Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!schwadro From: schwadro@aecom.UUCP (David Schwadron) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: net.flame.religion Message-ID: <1196@aecom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 23:13:44 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1196 Posted: Thu Feb 28 23:13:44 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:04:41 EST Distribution: net Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 35 I have an idea, why don't we just change the name of this newsgroup to something more appropriate, like net.flame.religion? Or maybe you want to make a point, other than that you know how to make scathing remarks about religions anmd religious people? Perhaps you are insecure about this subject, and need to resort to insults? Now on to something relevent... How can you claim that evolution is a scientific theory? I grant that it may be possable (though highly improbable), I thought that science was based upon the possability of doing a repeatable experiment. Unfortunately, evolution on earth leading to our existance has happened already, and can never happen again. Although you *may* be able to duplicate evolution, you can never repeat the original. I have a couple of questions... How valid is carbon dating? I beleive it is based on the ASSumption that the percentage of carbon that is radioactive to carbon that isn't. I won't swear by it. Remember when someone claimed to have found Noah's ark? It was carbon dated to be 4,500 years old. It was later proven to be a midievel monastary. Do you know that Plutonium dating, (a meathod not based on a similar assumption) proved that a batch of iron ore (which can only be formed by the heat of formation of a planet - or it's equivalent) was no more than 10,000 years old. About us closed minded, anti-progress religionists... Do you know that amoung Columbus' papers was a copy of Maimonides' "Guide to the Perplexed(13 cent.) which said that the world is round. You see Maimonides' saw the horizon. Or that according to the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Eruvin Rabbi Gamliel (1st century BC - 1st century AD) had A tube he used for measuring distances. Rashi, a midievil commentary, writes on this "one would look through it. It could be extected to see objects further away, and collapsed to see closer ones"(translation mine). Just in case anyone out there is curious, I personally beleive in creation. A little to iffy to be beleivable, maybe Someone fixed the dice. michab@aecom The view presented here is not those held by anyone who doesn't hold these views.