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From: schwadro@aecom.UUCP (David Schwadron)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: net.flame.religion
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 23:13:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 23:13:44 1985
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	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

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