Re: Petroleum, Design, Hoyle's Warning to the World

Obviously, there is something in my reply that infers that I think that
Hoyle is a dodo. My comment that maybe he will be wrong again was meant
only as a hope.

Anyhow, I apologize for the unintended slur

walt

Dawsonzhu@aol.com wrote:

> Walter Hicks wrote:
>
>
>> This is the same Hoyle who ridiculed the "big bang" theory and
>> advocated the
>> "steady state" theory.
>>
>> Maybe he will be wrong again.
>
> Wally,
>
> You have scolded us at ASA (and rightly so) for using uncharitable
> words at Creationists. But can't you see the lack of charity here?
> Hoyle
> was a man with some strengths and many weaknesses, just like you and
> me both.
>
> It is fair to hope that he is wrong, and better to cite evidence that
> he is
> wrong if there is any. This claim is certainly a lot more likely than
>
> his continuous creation ex nihilo (aka, the steady state universe).
> His character and his checkered history have nothing to do with what
> is true or false. There even are times when people we don't want to
> hear
> are telling us the truth. Truth must always be decided on its own
> merit.
>
> Nothing but regrets,
> but in Christ, we are forgiven by Grace,
> Wayne

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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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