janw@inmet.UUCP (10/15/85)
> [ray@rochester] > /* ---------- "Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in th" ---------- */ > > > Mr. Barry forgot to add that creationism is *NOT* information. It's not even > > science. It's an unprovable idea. > > > > Chris Young. > > Black holes up there or down there in outer space cannot absolutely be proven. > But no one denies the right to teach about the possibilities of the existence > of black holes. It is also not clear that the existence of black holes can > ever be proven. What we do see is the effect of not the direct observance > of what might be black holes. To draw parallels, what we observe in nature > is not necessarily God, but the effect God has had on nature, namely, creation- > ism. > > I rest my case. Your argument is a play on words. It reminds me of someone who claimed not to be antisemitic because he had nothing against Arabs. The creationism under discussion, as opposed to evolu- tionism, does not consist in the assertion that the Universe was created by a deity (which is the view you are defending) , but in the assertion that all existing forms of life were created directly and separately, rather than evolved from other forms of life. The two have, logically, nothing in common; the second one is not just unprovable: it has been thoroughly disproved. Jan Wasilewsky