----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: RE: Evolution Question
> At 14:26 15-4-02 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > >> > I was having a discussion with some pretty intractable creationists the > >> > other day, and one of them was making the particularly specious > >> > argument that evolution is bad science because it is not based on > >> > observed experiments. That is, no one has ever actually observed the > >> > creation of a new species over successive generations. > >> > >>And exactly how many people have observed the actual creation of the world, > >>the universe and everything in it? > > > >All of us. > > Nonsense. Man was created after everything else (assuming you are a > supporter of Creationism) so it is impossible for anyone to have observed > the actual creation -- man was not around yet. > Actually, it fits rather well with the Wheeler and Wigner view of cosmology. Why would you call their views nonsense? :-) Dan M.
