[net.misc] acceptable creationist evidence

janc@uofm-cv.UUCP (Jan Wolter) (02/17/84)

	Bill Jefferys has asked for evolutionists and creationists
to propose data which would tend to make them doubt the correctness
of their views.  I'm not certain that I'd be upset by evidence that
dinosaurs had survived past the time they were thought to be dead,
but I would be disturbed by any strong evidence showing humans to have
existed in the age of the dinosaur (what an absurd notion).  Here's
an experiment that could make me embrace creationism, (or at least
Velikowskyism):

	A expedition to alpha centauri finds the planet occupied by
	animals of the species homo sapiens, or at least animals
	that appear to be at least as closely related to homo sapiens
	as those commonly found on earth appear to be.  The evidence
	that this alpha centaurians evolved on alpha centauri seems
	comparable to the evidence that we evolved here.

	Yee, gads!  Something is rotten in the Universe.  The probability
	of parallel evolution is so miniscule, that all our imaginings of
	evidence for evolutionary must be thrown to the wind.

				Broken on the Steps of Dawn:
					J. Wolter

pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) (02/22/84)

I have decided to take up Jan Wolter's challenge to disprove evolution.
In fact, my rocket for Alpha Centauri leaves next week.  It's too bad
nobody reading this will be around when I get back.  I will present my
findings to your grandchildren.


Big :-)

Paul Dubuc