From: markv@pixar.com (Mark T. VandeWettering)
Subject: Re: Who does Phillip Johnson think the creationists are?
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:53:28 GMT

cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:

>Creationism relies on the assumption that God exists and was insrumental in the
>origin of the universe and everything in it.  Evolution, on the other hand,
>relies on the assumption that He doesn't exist, or if He does, He doesn't
>interfere with the natural processes of the universe.  Neither of these
>assumptions have been proved to be valid.  

	Evolution doesn't speak at all to the existance of God, positively
	or negatively.  It does assume he doesn't interfere in the operation
	of the universe.  The main reason that science does this is because
	there has never been an objective experiment performed which shows
	that God does this.  Creationists (creation scientist is an oxymoron
	like sweet pickle) hide this fact by basically stating "You can't 
	disprove it, therefore it could be so."  Unfortunately, science 
	doesn't work that way.  

>Yet the assumption made is crucial
>to the interpretation of the data.  No one has disproved God's existence, so I
>see no reason to prefer one view over the other (from a scientific viewpoint
>that is).

	Your bias is clear later.  Nobody has disproved that Bozo the Clown
	didn't create the universe either, therefore I have no reason to 
	believe that he didn't (speaking purely scientifically) :-).  

>There are, in fact, institutions dedicated to Creation Science Research.

	Dedicated to thinly (VERY thinly) disguised evangelism.

>> What is
>> the scientific evidence for creationist claims?  

>The "Pre-Cambrian Explosion" is a term used to describe the sudden formation of
>life on Earth.  This suddenness supports Creationism.  The fossil record shows
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