Re: Science Questions

• From: shawn_pickrell
• Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:44:27 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TCHSLR.00185EOTB.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

<<Ugh. Well, the sociological phenomenon of
the "creation science" movement is certainly a
legitimate topic. But let's not ask about the system itself
unless we're also putting in questions on the deep
technical workings of alchemy, flat-earthism, epicycles,
curing disease through bloodletting, and getting rich
via the tooth fairy.>>

Hi
Matt.

(Recent news item: BJU have relented and now allow
interracial dating)

There is some serious work being
done on creation science. Those working on creation
science raise questions which at the least deserve an
honest rebuttal, not a mocking dismissal. 

There
are also a variety of viewpoints with regard to the
Earth's creation, ranging from hardcore evolutionists
(such as yourself) to hardcore creationists (such as
the would-be founder of BJU Quizbowl). Personally I
am disinclined to believe any system which does not
have God as the central mover in events. The details,
to me, are not as relevant. Many coincidences, from
the Earth's distance from the sun, to the composition
of the atmosphere, to the bringing together of inert
chemicals, etc., have occurred to allow Homo sapiens to walk
this earth. 

Do a Yahoo search on creation
science and you will find several pages which raise
issues and questions and other pages which answer the
issues and questions. 

Chick Publications are of
course mocked in the atheist movement -- as I imagine
all Christians, deists, theists and those who believe
in a God or Gods of some sort are mocked in the
atheist movement. I imagine there are jokes a-plenty
about the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair and American
Atheists, Inc., from the Christian community. 

Shawn
Pickrell