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To: Sopater

Before Darwin there was phiosophical speculation on the origins of life. After Darwin there was phiosophical speculation on the origins of life.. The difference is that after Darwin it has become settled science that new species evolve from existing ones. Darwin didn’t address the origins of life. He described a mechanism to explain the origin of new species.

This whole article is based on multiple false premises.


8 posted on 05/28/2008 6:47:15 AM PDT by Soliton
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To: Soliton

Absolutely. The only thing of value in it that I saw (besides the words of our founders which are always inspiring) was this...

“We shall show by the testimony of men learned in science and theology that there are millions of people who believe in evolution and in the stories of creation as set forth in the Bible and who find no conflict between the two.”

Even more true now than in 1925.


10 posted on 05/28/2008 6:53:20 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Soliton

“it has become settled science”

Is that you, Al Gore?


12 posted on 05/28/2008 6:56:43 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: Soliton

Ah... “settled science”

Just like Algore - a phrase intended to SHUT UP ANYONE WHO HAS A DISSENTING POINT OF VIEW.

Very, very typical of anyone attempting to destroy the foundations of our society.


13 posted on 05/28/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Soliton
after Darwin it has become settled science that new species evolve from existing ones.

This, too is a false premises. It is not "settled science". All Darwin did was provide a suggested mechanism to explain the origin of new species, just as you said. To say that something might have happened and "settle" the science are two completely different things.
35 posted on 05/28/2008 8:56:39 AM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Soliton
This whole article is based on multiple false premises.

Not very surprising, unfortunately.

60 posted on 05/28/2008 12:27:27 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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