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To: biblewonk
When science can no longer be proven and becomes a doctrine that must be believed, it has become religion.

A better test is when science can no longer be disproven it has become a religion. The Evos here are always willing to modify the theory in light of new evidence. Indeed, it is easy to imagine evidence that would disprove evolution as currently formulated, such as fossils of humanoids that could be dated to more than 100 million years, or DNA results showing humans have more in common with trees than snakes. These results would call for major revisions in evolutionary theory.

However, the creationists will never admit of a fact that would disprove creation. It is hard to imagine what would disprove creationism - it is, in that respect, an untestable and empty idea, and is more religion than science.

169 posted on 02/21/2002 11:15:09 AM PST by cracker
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To: cracker
A better test is when science can no longer be disproven it has become a religion. The Evos here are always willing to modify the theory in light of new evidence. Indeed, it is easy to imagine evidence that would disprove evolution as currently formulated, such as fossils of humanoids that could be dated to more than 100 million years, or DNA results showing humans have more in common with trees than snakes. These results would call for major revisions in evolutionary theory.

That is the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on one of these threads. A 100 million yearold fossil of a human skeleton to disprove evolution? HELLO!

172 posted on 02/21/2002 11:24:44 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: cracker
However, the creationists will never admit of a fact that would disprove creation.

This is true of both. You are sadly in a state of denial. The only way to disprove creation is for it not to be true. I can't imagine how to disprove that 2+2=4 either. It is also impossible to disprove that God didn't just create me in the middle of typing this sentence. Science can only prove how things are now, not how they came to be.

173 posted on 02/21/2002 11:27:30 AM PST by biblewonk
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