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Old January 31st 04, 07:25 AM
Rand Simberg
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Default Phil Doubts it!

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:40:25 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Chosp"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as
to indicate that:

Creationism is a disproved theory.

No, Creationism is a non-disprovable theory, which is why it doesn't
belong in science classes (which is not to say that it doesn't
necessarily belong in schools).

Creationism has both empirical aspects and non-empirical aspects.
The empirical aspects are disprovable


They are not.

I have a theory that the entire universe was created ten minutes ago,
complete with memories. Disprove it.


It is not a statement relating to anything empirical. There is
nothing to test. There are no empirical aspects to disprove.


Just as is creationism.