Op-Ed: Why evolution is still correctly called a theory - talk.origins

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Jason Spaceman wrote:
> Also, from the same newspaper see "On the other hand ..."
>
> From the article:
> --------------------------------------
> Spectrum/Bill Siedler
>
> In Pastor Ron Hamman's nearly unintelligible creationist rant
(Spectrum, 1/21),
> he says he wants the Valley to host a creationism vs. evolution
debate because
> it would "really put the Valley on the map!"
>
> He then makes the claim that evolution cannot properly be called a
scientific
> "theory" like gravity or thermodynamics. Lastly, he says that in 1990
somebody
> issued a $10,000 challenge to anyone who could show scientific proof
of
> evolution.
>
> The prize still sits in a bank, unclaimed, says Hamman, and has now
accumulated
> enough interest to be a $250,000 prize today. Allow me to respond:
First, the
> Valley is already on the "map," but sadly, it's mostly due to our
reputation as
> an enclave for believers of things that strain credulity, like the
Rev. Hamman.
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Read it at
>
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2005/02/01/news/opinion/opinion3.txt
>
>

Ron Hamman says: "The fact that evolutionary scientists know this is
self-evident by the constant barrage of theories and experimentation
they throw at us. And indeed they must, for their only alternative is
Christianity."

OK IDers, here's your chance. You say that your designer is nt
necessarily God, and that your alternative is strictly scientific. Are
any of you going to say plainly that what Hamman says is utter
nonsense?




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