Donal: ... Darwinism as "a better intellectual/theoretical footing" than Creationism. ... [your comments] betrays misunderstanding of what is at stake here.
What is at stake? Obviously evolution is an empirically demonstrated process of nature. Obviously Einstein has been vindicated because some aspects of relativity (gravity bending light) have been observed. Obviously Marx offers a better understanding of economic process than clay tablets of trading accounts from ancient Sumer.
My objection was to constructing a constellation of "authorities" to provide a "footing." That went out with Bacon in 1605. From mystery comes discovery, not from a pack of Golden Codgers.
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