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Creationists' age for the earth

Eric Cabot cabot at bangs.gcg.com
Wed Sep 11 08:21:26 EST 1996


Leonard,

 This is not a flame, but just to keep the semantics straight,  I
noticed that you wrote:

>He however, has 
>been teaching that evolution is naught but a *theory* (true enough) held but 
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Evolution is an observable fact! 

The theories pertain to the *mechanisms* (eg. nat.sel.) by which it is
believed to  occur.  Consider the analogy to weather (another
observable natural phenomenon) and weather forecasting.

-Eric
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Regards,

  Eric L. Cabot
  cabot at gcg.com 




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