From: DRAGONFLY           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: relig & logic??
Date & Time: 05/23/91 01:50:56
Message Number 17050

   Fine, Turtle.  PROVE, or in some way, VERIFY that the world is
more than six thousand years old.  Indeed, PROVE, or in some way, 
VERIFY that the world is more than five minutes old.  Dude, you do
NOT listen to my definitions.  A Creationist's stance is non-
contradictory, but it DOES make some strange assumptions.  (I.E.
That God made the universe "old," and created bones of creatures which
never really existed, colloquially called the dinosaurs.)
    
    It is VERY possible for neither a statement nor its negation to
be VERIFIABLE.  And I have stated at least three times that I equate
truth with verifiability.  
     
   
    Even still, I apologize.  You're right:  the ideas of experimental
science did come from Greek thought, and were appropriated by 
Christianity.  Or at least two of them did: that the universe has an
order, and that a finite number of laws will explain everything.  The
repeatability of experiments I'm not so sure of -- most Greek
intellectuals were more interested in experiments of the mind than 
of the physical realm.  
                        //Dragonfly//