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To: Youngblood

Uh, oh. The official dogma apparently can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas. If Darwinism can’t stand the scrutiny of scientific inquiry and universities have to resort to censorship to protect it, how long can it survive? Will natural selection eliminate it?


12 posted on 11/13/2005 6:47:49 AM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: Liberty Wins

New ideas are always met at first with ridicule;
then with vehement opposition; afterwards, they
are seen to have been obvious.


13 posted on 11/13/2005 6:49:15 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: Liberty Wins
Uh, oh. The official dogma apparently can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas.

That's why "ID", which is dogma thousands of years old, lost out to evolutionary biology in the marketplace of ideas over the past 150 years.

If Darwinism can’t stand the scrutiny of scientific inquiry

"Darwinism" has only become more and more validated over time.

and universities have to resort to censorship to protect it,

ROFL!!! Yeah, right. Pull the other leg now. The only "censorship" is that we insist that people stop lying about science. But even that seems too hard for the "IDers" and creationists to do.

how long can it survive?

150 years and still going strong, in fact it's on more firm ground than ever. With the advent of DNA analysis a few decades ago, the evidence for evolution, along multiply independent lines of cross-confirming evidene, has become so overwhelming that it's one of the most well-established fields in all of science.

So in answer to your question, it's likely to survive for a very, very long time.

Will natural selection eliminate it?

Unlikely.

40 posted on 11/13/2005 8:13:44 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Liberty Wins

What scientific enquiry?


295 posted on 11/13/2005 4:31:21 PM PST by Youngblood
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