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To: stremba

Nonsense! Name another theory in science that is treated as dogmatically as evolution with such paltry evidence to back it up. Evolution is the politically favored child, given a free ride because of the ideological stakes involved. Intelligent design and even religious faith fit the available evidence as well as evolution does. What's the difference?

I even doubt that evolution would even still be around as a theory today if it hadn't piggybacked on a couple of 19th century political movements that helped enshrine it. On the right, you had the Social Darwinists, who liked the survival of the fittest part, even though that aspect can easily exist without the accumulated random mutation nonsense. On the left, the Socialists loved the evolutionary progress idea, the randomness, and above all the godlessness. Leftist intellectuals saw the theory as a way to bludgeon religious faith and conservatism and they leapt at the chance. They've protected evolution like a mama bear protects her cubs ever since.

The left has used its control of the educational system, the media, and the courts to beat the theory of evolution into us for well over a century. They've made into "that which we shall never question".


818 posted on 11/30/2004 1:08:50 PM PST by puroresu
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To: puroresu
Name another theory in science that is treated as dogmatically as evolution with such paltry evidence to back it up.

Loaded request. Evolution does not have "paltry evidence" backing it up, it has mountains of evidence backing it up.
827 posted on 11/30/2004 3:28:55 PM PST by Dimensio (Join the Monthly Internet Flash Mob: http://www.aa419.org)
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To: puroresu

Still waiting for a better theory than evolution. It must be scientific; that is, it must generate predictions that if found to be untrue, would render it false. What other theory is there that does better?


863 posted on 12/01/2004 6:02:33 AM PST by stremba
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