Re: Ben Stein's Movie EXPELLED - Could we have been "designed" bySpace Aliens?

In article <481B1670.C91458AD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bill Bonde 
( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal 
attack' ) said...

> Creationism "jibes" with known facts.

Alas for you, no. The creationist notion of a kind, to 
mention just one problem, is at odds with biological 
reality. Likewise the contention made by creationists 
that microevolution and macroevolution describe two 
very different phenomena is incorrect on both 
evidentiary and conceptual grounds. 

(Also, why did you put the perfectly normal word jibe 
inside scare quotes?)

> In fact, Creationism has no problem explaining 
> everything that we see today.

Creationism explains nothing. "God did it" is not a 
scientific explanation. More elaborate descriptions 
amount to the same thing. "God gave squirrels the fur, 
fluffy tails and large incisors they need to fill 
the niche he created for them" is meaningless from a 
scientific point of view.

> > String theory differs from Creationism in another way:
> > When technology has advanced such that the predictions
> > of string theory can be tested, string theory will
> > stand or fall by the results of the tests.
> >
> Or they'll just change to a new string theory.

So what? That's how science progresses. The new 
theory will, like the others, be vulnerable to the 
blade of disproof. 

All the while, though, creationists will be insisting 
that their own long-disproved ideas be treated as 
viable alternative theories.

This is where you get very confused about the 
difference between scientific inquiry and creationism, 
Bill. Making wrong guesses is not unscientific. 
Clinging to wrong guesses is. 
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Brian E. Clark