wkp@lanl.ARPA (02/01/85)
>[Dan Boscovich writes]: > Haven't you heard of the ICR (Institute of Creation Research) based in > San Diego? There are hundreds of Biologists, Chemists, and Physicists > who believe in creation science on the basis of scientific evidence alone. > There is as much SCIENTIFIC evidence behind Creation theory as there is > the Evolutionary theory. Please don't make statements that are not based > on scientific facts such as: (Creationism is not science. It is religion.) > If you would like some names, facts, etc. I would be glad to furnish them > upon demand. > > Dan Sorry, Dan, but the ICR is a joke. It is simply untrue that there is as much scientific evidence behind creationism (*not* theory) as there is in evolution. I knew a guy in graduate school (in physics at the Univ. of Calif.) who was a creationist; the more he learned, the more he realized what a mediocre bunch of frustrated gospel artists the ICR really was. Please look into the ICR a bit closer. I have read some of their reports, and at least from the physics papers they write, it is all B.S. -------------- bill peter {ihnp4,seismo}!cmcl2!lanl!wkp
teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) (02/07/85)
Why do the two, creationism and evolution contratict each other? I believe in creation as an act of G-D. To not believe in evolution is stupid since we see it in every day life. The question is: did G-D create the world in the present status or did he create it and let it evolve into the way we know it today. I personally feel that man was created as we know him today. This does not mean that there is a genetic link between men and primates. It's just that I am not happy with thinking I am a descendant of a monkey. As to the finding of other links in the evolutionary chain, that doesn't bother me either. There is a belief in Judaism that our present word is the seventh in a series, the other six having been previously destroyed. Maybe these skeletons are remnants of the other worlds? This would also explain their age, in light of Jewish tradition that the world was created 5745 years ago. But even without the other worlds, I do not see a problem with creation and evolution. Eliyahu Teitz. > Sorry, Dan, but the ICR is a joke. It is simply untrue that there is as much > scientific evidence behind creationism (*not* theory) as there is in evolution.