[bit.listserv.christia] Evolution is Not *A* Science - KEG

GATLING@SUVM (Keith E Gatling) (02/28/90)

Overloaded:

Michelle did not  say that evolution was *A* science,  but rather that
it  was science...as  in part  of science.  It is  the same  grammatic
construction I  would use if I  were to say "Fugue  is music," meaning
(assuming a  similar context to  the discussion of evolution)  that it
is part  of the discipline of  music, and not  that of art. So  now in
an  effort to  clear up  this murky  and rather  emotional issue  (and
let's face  it, when an issue  becomes emotional, there is  next to no
chance for any  kind of resolution), evolution is but  one of a number
of  *scientific  theories*,  which  includes  scientific  creationism.
Neither  one of  this  *is*  science, but  they  both  fall under  the
discipline of science, with scientific  creationism also having a foot
in the discipline of theology.

You  are indeed  correct  when you  say that  evolution  is not  truth
because it  cannot be really proven.  That's why it remains  (to those
who are indeed  honest about it, and not blinded  by whatever ideology
they  may  hold) a  theory...a  *possible*  explantion of  how  things
happened. Einstein's  theories in the  realm of physics  remain mostly
just that...theories...until proven or  disproven, and most physicists
admit that  the jury is  still out on them  even though it  looks like
his explantion is perhaps the most feasible.

Just thought I'd try to clear some things up.

keg