Said mejesse: Remember anyone can write anything - and probably there are at least a few people who will chime in and agree with it. Can you please help a poor dumb person (me) figure out how to read the actual draft that you're talking about?
It was published in Nature, a peer reviewed publication
Ahh, maybe I can barrow it from my library?
As to peer reviewed, it was reviewed by peers in the same camp. I know how that works. There well may have been other scientists who would have disagreed and disallowed publishing but were not allowed to review it. (probably because they aren't allowed to be hired to do so.) But that doesn't make it true, accurate, or honest.
Peer review only means that "a bunch of other people that agree with it read it and agree with it." But that doesn't mean that
it is true! I'll bet that if you went and looked, you'd find that the peers who reviewed it are probably quite of the mind of P.Z. Myers - who seems to be quite a staunch atheist and
taglines himself as a "godless liberal." Of course the peers agreed with it. They wouldn't be peers if they didn't. But it is clear that just because more then one person is saying it I still cannot rest assured that they are correct.
In any case, do you know what publication and what issue I might find the article you reference in? Or
is this just elephant hurling?
Thanks,
-Jesse
119 posted on
08/02/2008 2:33:14 PM PDT by
mrjesse
(Could it be true? Imagine, being forgiven, and having a cause, greater then yourself, to live for!)