Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: A new voice. Message-ID: <542@psivax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 13:32:12 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.542 Posted: Tue Jul 9 13:32:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:57:29 EDT References: <349@scgvaxd.UUCP> <81@rtp47.UUCP> <352@scgvaxd.UUCP> <536@psivax.UUCP> <357@scgvaxd.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 33 Summary: In article <357@scgvaxd.UUCP> dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: >In article <536@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: >>Please keep in mind that a theory is only valid *within* the framework >>of its area of application! The Creationist position os an attempt to >>replace at least three seperate, and *independent* theories with one >>expalnation. When I say independent, I mean that each of the theories >>could be true or false without implying anything about the truth or >>falsity of any of the others. Thus you *cannot* try to tie them >>together in a single basket. > > The three theories may be independant of one another, but that does not > mean that they are not related or can not be tied together. This is > net.origins not net.evolution. In this newsgroup all of these theories > ARE tied together. > > The creationist position is an attempt to replace three interrelated > theories with a single multi-phase theory. Matter, planets, simple and > complex life can be attributed to a super-natural origin, or a naturalistic > origin. Either way you are tieing the three together. > What I was trying to say was that evidence/arguments against one of the three is *not* evidence against any of the others, they must be dismantled seperately! I was certainly *not* trying to say that they are not (distantly) related, or that they do not all belong in net.origins! My main concern is to keep the arguments valid, and the argument I was addessing most certainly was not valid due to an invalid form of crossover argumentation. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen