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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 09:27:18 EST
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> >      Now for those folks who insist that the Biblical story of creation is
> > only a metaphor or a Fable, what is your proof of such assertation?  Until
> > you can prove your point, don't waste your breath.  The Creation story sure
> > makes alot more scense than the theory of evolution.
> > 
> > Lief Sorensen

I suspect that no major Christian religion willingly decided to accept
the story of Genesis as a metaphor.  It's just that the only
alternatives are to reject science (as we see here) or to reject
Genesis.

Most prescientific theories make more sense than the scientific
ones...until you take the evidence into account.  Prescientific
theories were formulated specifically to make sense.  Scientific
theories are formulated to provide an explaination of what we
know of the universe.

-- 

Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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