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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Young earth creationist logic NOT!
- Date: 20 Aug 92 20:57:52 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <63ga03Lg59Ze00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Aug19.124008.16945@pixel.kodak.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.124008.16945@pixel.kodak.com>, jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes...
- >
- >Stupid question: if God created everything with the appearance of age,
- >i.e. exactly as things would look if currently understood processes had been
- >operating in the past, how is that any different, as far as science is
- >concerned, from the case where everything really _is_ old?
-
- That's his point. Jim believes that science is the wrong tool for
- understanding the world, because it might be that God just wants us to
- think its that way when it really is different. The only way to find
- truth is by accepting the Bible, word for word, interpreted, of course,
- according to Jim.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-