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To: puroresu
We know that variation occurs within kind, but we don't at all know that evolution occurs.

Maybe *you* don't, but *we* certainly do. We've looked at the evidence.

It's simply an assumption. An interesting one, I'll grant you, but nothing more than one.

Uh huh... And where exactly did you "learn" this bit of nonsense?

I could take you into any well-stocked research library and quite literally *bury* you in journal articles detailing the supporting evidence for evolution. That makes it quite a bit more than "simply an assumption", son.

1,041 posted on 12/01/2004 11:02:00 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon

Ichneumon, it's fine with me if you wish you express your opinions and offer your evidence, either here or in the educational system.

However, to act as if evolution's a done deal is ridiculous. If your side had anything in its arsenal even remotely close to settling this issue in your favor, it would have been presented a long time ago. It isn't as if your side isn't trying to crush the opposition, the way a political ideology, rather than people offering a scientific theory, would. In fact, you have political forces on your side (the ACLU for one) whose specialty is bludgeoning the opposition into silence.

Present your views if you wish. I've even suggested that it's possible the evolutionary view is correct, though I don't believe that to be the case. I'm sure you can offer me volumes of evidence for your theory. It's been around now for a century and a half, if not longer, and lots of scientists have chimed in on it.

If this was a done deal, your side would have dropped the big one a long time ago. Why would you even bother debating those of us who have doubts about evolution? I don't bother debating anyone who doubts that the earth orbits the sun. First, the evidence that the earth orbits to sun is sufficiently strong that few people deny it. Second, the few people who do deny it aren't worth debating.

So are we worth debating, or not?


1,111 posted on 12/02/2004 8:28:05 AM PST by puroresu
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