crummer%AEROSPACE@sri-unix.UUCP (12/24/83)
From: Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE> I just read Feingold's flame and agree heartily except with his somewhat fearful outrage. I guess I can't really get too worried about creationism as a threat to physics. I have faith that the truth will out. Phlogiston, aether, Ptolemy's celestial spheres, and other such have dropped away naturally under the inexorable advance of scientific investigation. From Galileo's vantage point things must have looked bleak also. Perhaps the weakest feature of creationism is that it is a dead theory. Like proofs of the existence of God it seems to consist mainly of rebuttals to unbelievers. With no positive predictive power it relegetes itself to the obscure list of curiosities. Creationism like McCarthy, Agnew, George Lincoln Rockwell, Lenin, and the Yippies will not survive massive benign neglect. --Charlie