[webstersII]

"So he wasn't a RealScientistTM until he was dead a few years?"

Considering the grief he got over some of his ideas when he was alive I'm sure that's what some people said. But he at least he had mathematical proofs for many of his ideas. Proofs can be reproduced and verified on a chalkboard.

History will tell whether you, Darwin, and your colleagues will be held in high esteem or chuckled at for your own ignorance. Modern medicine laughs at medical theories and ideas from the 19th and 20th century. Do you think the people of the 21st and 22nd centuries will think any differently of much of the current scientific knowledge? Of course, the exception to this will be those ideas which can be examined and tested in the lab -- just like any of the experiments Newton, et. al. performed are still being reproduced today.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Modern medicine laughs at medical theories and ideas from the 19th and 20th century."

Only the historically ignorant and arrogant medical researchers do.

"Of course, the exception to this will be those ideas which can be examined and tested in the lab -- just like any of the experiments Newton, et. al. performed are still being reproduced today."

What experiments did Newton perform? And, are you aware that Newton's theories have been shown to be inadequate?

[Right Wing Professor]

History will tell whether you, Darwin, and your colleagues will be held in high esteem or chuckled at for your own ignorance

No doubt. But Darwin's made it 150 years so far. And don't substitute yourself for history. The only people chuckling at Darwin here are chuckleheads.

Of course, the exception to this will be those ideas which can be examined and tested in the lab -- just like any of the experiments Newton, et. al. performed are still being reproduced today.

Name an experiment Newton did that's being reproduced today.

[Mamzelle]

re: Yep. That's why these discussions are largely pointless for all parties involved. )))

A shame they can't go to the "Pointless Chat Room" or be routed there.

However, this thread includes partisan implications--and libertarians would love to uninvite conservative Christians from "their party"--like 'tarians even vote! This has been true for a long time--libertarians chiefly show up to gripe, gripe, gripe about how they don't like Baptists and are so terribly terrified about this looming theocracy.

"The Religious Right is going to destroy the GOP!" when the GOP would have been consigned to oblivion long ago without the RR or Mr. RR.

The erstwhile "War on Science" is yet another one of these, a phony issue to diguise an irrational antipathy.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Considering the grief he got over some of his ideas when he was alive ...

Which grief? The Nobel Prize? Professor of physics at Prague? Head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute? Professor at the University of Berlin? Professor of theoretical physics at Princeton?