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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.origins
Subject: Re: Evolution vs.(?) Creationism
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Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 18:01:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 18:01:04 1986
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	It was basically decided a prerequisite for posting to net.sci
(or whatever we're calling ourselves these days) was a belief that
evolution was real and that creationism should be relegated to talk.origins.

	However, as long as the rule has been breached. Allow me to share
a letter of mine that the New York Daily News actually published on their
Op-Ed page:

The following appeared in the Letters to the Editor page
of the New York Daily News on Sat. Nov 22, 1986.  The

	Science Lesson
	Bronx: About Cal Thomas' col-
	umn "Let's teach both fact and
	fiction" on creationism and
	evolution:  He subtly implies
	that it is evolution that is the
	fiction.  Evolution is incon-
	trovertible fact.  It is only the
	explanations of it mechanisms
	that are theories.  He is wrong in
	saying that the court of public
	opinion should decide which is
	right.  In science, there is only
	one standard: the weight of the
	evidence.  And although the evi-
	dence is incomplete regarding
	evolution, it completely rules
	out a creationist scenario.
	    Craig Werner, Albert Einstein
                      College of Medicine


-- 
			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
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              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                                 "But I digress..."