Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!husc6!necntc!encore!linus!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.origins Subject: Re: Evolution vs.(?) Creationism Message-ID: <737@aecom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 18:01:04 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.737 Posted: Sat Dec 13 18:01:04 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 01:56:10 EST References: <2778@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> <1260@cybvax0.UUCP> <634@astroatc.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 39 Summary: It angered some New Yorkers... Xref: mnetor sci.bio:57 talk.origins:212 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) !philabs!aecom!werner (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517) "But I digress..."