uniformitarianism from Re: The YECs have won

>>> bivalve <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com> 2/25/2005 3:09:12 PM
>>>wrote:

I have also seen the claim that atheists have to be strict uniformitarians,
in the caricature of Lyell sense of assuming past uniformity in things that
don't have constant rates. Not sure why this is supposed to be the case.

Ted replies:
Because it makes a really nice straw man to set on fire. Creationist
history of science is, if anything, even more selective in its
intepretations than the old "warfare of religion and science" approach.

ted
Received on Fri Feb 25 15:26:37 2005