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From: stevem@comtch.iea.com (Steve McGrew)
Subject: Re: Creation or Evolution? You Decide :)
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In article <535teo$sh4@stealth.romoidoy.com>, hartman@alphoid.romoidoy.com (Richard M. Hartman) wrote:
>No matter which scientific theory of creation you start with, at some
>point there is an "it starts".  At this point, creation theory is the
>only one that provides an answer.

        That's baloney, of course.  An "answer" has to be consistent with 
observed facts.  Alternative explanations with equal consistency to observed 
facts include:

1) The universe exists only in our own imagination
2) the universe started as a random quantum fluctuation in nothing
3) The universe has always existed
4) Humans will build a time machine someday and go back to create the universe
5) Daddy made it.

        Go ahead and accept any explanation that makes you feel better, for 
the things you can't understand.  I feel fine simply admitting that some 
questions are, at least for the present, unanswerable.  It gives me more than 
enough to keep life interesting and rewarding, to focus on a few questions and 
dig for their answers in repeatable experiments.

Steve

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