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To: PatrickHenry

>I'm going to pause to recap some earlier points. In post >49, I pointed out the definition of a theory, to show that >creationism doesn't qualify. You've pretty much ignored >that (your post 53 was just tapdancing). Your claim in >post 56 about rocks not springing to life is an absurdity. >Do you imagine that you're refuting something in the >theory of evolution? Until you seriously deal with some of >the issues raised here, you don't really deserve much more >attention. At least not from me.

I think the two theories are worthy of debate, which I thought may have been the point of the original post.

The obervation of varied and complex life forms is sufficient to form a hypothesis concerning its origin, even if that theory is based on prior knowledge or belief. The mathematical probability that life just spontaneously popped out of a chemical soup is so remote that the suggestion of a designer is not absurd. The reference to rocks (chemicals) was metaphorical. The idea that the simplest strand of DNA just assembled by chance collisions of molecules is like 1 in 10^84 - quite far fetched. That number by the way, came from an evolutionist whose name I can't remember.


63 posted on 09/07/2004 2:30:57 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: trubolotta
I think the two theories are worthy of debate ...

You have not successfully read and comprehended post 49. Creationism is not a theory. Not even close. It can't be falsified. It can't be tested in any way. It makes no predictions. It's based on no verifiable observations. It's a claim, nothing more. It is most definitely not worthy of debate in a scientific context. Study the situation some more. Until then, have a nice day.

68 posted on 09/07/2004 2:39:48 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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