RE: [asa] Polkinghorne and 'natural' science [was evolutionary process]

What do scientists mean when they use to term "creation?" Say, like the
creation of the universe.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of George Murphy
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:12 AM
To: Merv; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Polkinghorne and 'natural' science [was evolutionary
process]

"Creation science" would be "supernatural science" - (a) if there really
were such a thing as the former & (b) if its proponents understood what
"creation" means.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

        ----- Original Message -----

        From: Merv <mailto:mrb22667@kansas.net>

        To: asa@calvin.edu

        Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:17 PM

        Subject: Re: [asa] Polkinghorne and 'natural' science [was
evolutionary process]

        Wouldn't virtually everyone here agree that the phrase
"supernatural science", should it ever be coined, is an oxymoron? And
normally that observation would come with a sneer from self-appointed
Secularists. But it can also come as a sober appraisal of the latter
partner's limitations. I wonder if YECs have ever tried embracing such
a phrase. And if not, why not?
        
        --Merv
        
        Dick Fischer wrote:

        Natural as opposed to supernatural.

        Dick Fischer

        Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

        Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

        www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Gregory Arago [mailto:gregoryarago@yahoo.ca]
        Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:08 PM
        To: Dick Fischer; ASA
        Subject: RE: [asa] Polkinghorne and 'natural' science [was
evolutionary process]

        "Causes have to be natural to qualify as science, that's all." -
Dick Fischer (Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:33:55 -0500)

        Does this mean that anthropology, philology, economics,
sociology, culturology, history and psychology (among others) do not
qualify as 'science' in your estimation? They all study non-natural
things. Yet the ASA welcome acknowledges them as 'scientific.' Who can
untwist that?

        G.A.

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