RE: Use of words crucial to debate'

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:32:52 -0700

Pim wrote:

If you have evidence to the contrary then please provide us with them. You
might be right but unless
you can provide us with a mechanism and supporting data, the assumption of
randomness is defensible.

Bertvan: The point is that if and when other mechanisms are found, there will be no
reason to assume they are the only mechanisms, and no one's god can ever be
ruled out.

Of course, nothing can ever be totally ruled out. And of course the supernatural can not be dealt with
by science.

Bertvan: However Neo Darwinists, with a religious committment to randomness, have
discouraged anyone from looking for other mechanisms, declaring them all to
have been "discredited".

Nice strawman Bert. Perhaps you should try to support that with some evidence?