rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (08/01/84)
In the few months that I've been following this group, I've seen a number
of complaints along the lines of:
"You're talking about religious creationism. That's not the same
as scientific creationism. There is a creationist view which
doesn't rely on the Bible."
and I've occasionally seen offers to post some information on the basics of
scientific creationism.
Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't yet seen an explanation of what is
meant by scientific creationism. If the article has appeared and I just
missed it, would someone please send email to point it out to me. But if,
as I suspect, there hasn't been anything, would one of the scientific-
creation proponents please try to post something, subject to the following
two constraints:
1. Don't just give references. References are fine for someone
who wants to spend the time/effort/money to locate them for further
reading, but all we need here are some basics to get us started,
and a lot more people will read the material if it's right here in
front of their noses.
2. Try to focus on what scientific creationism has to say, on its
own merits, rather than comparing it with evolution. That is, I
think we need to see some creationist material which is positive on
its own ground rather than negative toward evolution. [Stated yet
another way, I'm interested in evaluating creationism, not weighing
it against evolutionism. After all, they might both be wrong:-]
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Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086
...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.ward@hao.UUCP (08/02/84)
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[Stated yet
another way, I'm interested in evaluating creationism, not weighing
it against evolutionism. After all, they might both be wrong:-]
No, Dick, you just don't understand. Evolution might be wrong. It, after
all is science. Scientific Creationism *MUST* be right. It has the same
relationship to science as a Democratic People's Republic has to democracy.
(or republicacy (or whatever)).
Need I put in the :-) ?..........probably
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Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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