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Re: Critical Thinking
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 22:09:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
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> > By his standard - the Big Bang theory wouldn't holdup either - AND it is far
> > more "current" of a theory than creationism. (sigh)
> Beyond which, creationism is most certainly a current theory, though by
> definition a non-scientific one, as should be evident by efforts to have
> Creationism taught in public schools.
If you consider that creationsim has been around since Moses penned the book of
Genesis - and even before that though it wasn't written down, I guess you can
call creationism "current".
By your standard, then, most every theory known to man is "current".
Also, "scientific", which you refer to, is a funny thing - it gets redefined
every time someone has evidence that doesn't fit the accepted framework. (I'll
not get into that).
-Jon
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| (...) Not true! The Geocentric earth theory is certainly not current to any rational way of thinking, nor is the reproduction-by-stork theory. I label creationism a current theory because certain camps are actively promoting its inclusion in public (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The difference, without generating yet another sub-debate, is that the Big Bang can be retroactively derived from observable and replicable events. The Creation reported in Genesis is by definition (as you've noted) a supernatural event that (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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