Re: NRO Article

[Steven Jamar]

Hmm.  Science does provide lots of information about origins and about how processes began.  Except for the answer to "Why is there anything instead of nothing?"  We can't yet look behind the big bang.  But we understand chemistry pretty well.  And how it "began".  And we understand aspects of life and how it began - albeit with a lot more hypothesis and less proof than in the case of chemistry.  It is wrong to say "no scientific information, however, exists about how these processes began."  Scientific information is not the same as scientific proof or irrefutable proof.  But we know a lot more than nothing.

Steve

On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 10:41  AM, Gibbens, Daniel G. wrote:
 Specifically, science has provided reliable information about the processes and development of the physical universe and life within it.  No scientific information, however, exists about how these processes began….  Specifically, the science curricula must include clear communication that science provides no information about these origins.  This is true regardless of whether schools teach creationism or intelligent design elsewhere in the nonscience curricula.”   55 Okla.L.Rev. 613 (2002).

Dan Gibbens
University of Oklahoma College of Law
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