Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!sb1!mb2c!uofm-cv!janc From: janc@uofm-cv.UUCP (Jan Wolter) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: acceptable creationist evidence Message-ID: <500@uofm-cv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 11:31:57 EST Article-I.D.: uofm-cv.500 Posted: Fri Feb 17 11:31:57 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 05:36:08 EST Lines: 23 Bill Jefferys has asked for evolutionists and creationists to propose data which would tend to make them doubt the correctness of their views. I'm not certain that I'd be upset by evidence that dinosaurs had survived past the time they were thought to be dead, but I would be disturbed by any strong evidence showing humans to have existed in the age of the dinosaur (what an absurd notion). Here's an experiment that could make me embrace creationism, (or at least Velikowskyism): A expedition to alpha centauri finds the planet occupied by animals of the species homo sapiens, or at least animals that appear to be at least as closely related to homo sapiens as those commonly found on earth appear to be. The evidence that this alpha centaurians evolved on alpha centauri seems comparable to the evidence that we evolved here. Yee, gads! Something is rotten in the Universe. The probability of parallel evolution is so miniscule, that all our imaginings of evidence for evolutionary must be thrown to the wind. Broken on the Steps of Dawn: J. Wolter