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Article says precisely what I'd like to know from all the evolutionists on these threads?
1 posted on 07/27/2006 3:00:04 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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There are no Darwinists. Who is the question being addressed to and what is the right question? Strawmen get an automatic F.
74 posted on 07/27/2006 4:33:41 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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What are Darwinists so afraid of?

Competition of ideas.

110 posted on 07/27/2006 4:57:43 PM PDT by plain talk
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What's a "Darwinist?" Outside of the Creationist/ID community it is not used.


134 posted on 07/27/2006 5:28:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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What has "intelligent design" contributed? ID has no research labs, no field studies, not a single discovery of anything. ID has done no science. ID is just PR arguments against evolutionary science.

Oh, I see, IDist Behe said that his definition of science includes astrology. "Nuff said.

ID can't even answer the simplest of questions: How did "the designer" intervene in the laws of nature to perform these miracles? When did He do it?

ID has no dates, no measurements, no positive evidence to offer.

159 posted on 07/27/2006 5:50:17 PM PDT by thomaswest (On ID: "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture.")
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bump


329 posted on 07/27/2006 7:32:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Evolution: It's not "one" missing link - ALL the links are missing.)
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"What are Darwinists so afraid of?"

Well, in my case, I'm afraid of higher taxes, religious fanatics like those in the Party of God (the Hezb'Allah), and Hillary Clinton.


482 posted on 07/27/2006 9:15:28 PM PDT by JHBowden (A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume)
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What are Darwinists so afraid of?

Oh I don't know.

Perhaps such things as the regeneration of the Taliban in Mayberry, a replay of the Spanish Inquisition, or a reprise of the persecution of Copernicus.

Beyond that, nothing much.

492 posted on 07/27/2006 9:21:53 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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Article says precisely what I'd like to know from all the evolutionists on these threads?

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! No truth-handler are you!

514 posted on 07/27/2006 9:47:14 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Never apologise. never explain)
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YEC SPOTREP


530 posted on 07/27/2006 10:01:45 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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lol read DWARFS for some reason - nevermind


533 posted on 07/27/2006 10:03:07 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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From the article: Some want to protect Darwinism from the competitive marketplace by overturning the critical-analysis standards. My hope is that these efforts will merely lead students to ask, What's the evidence they don't want us to see?

I think I'll take a crack at it.

From the prospective of those who support evolution, ID is an end run around the supposed constitutional separation between church and state; and I think it is also. To pretend otherwise only lends suspicion to those who are suspicious. I disagree with that interpretation of the constitution, but that is another discussion. Evos also have a great deal of data that supports their position. This debate is not going to be won with the endless shallow peppered moth finch beak macro/micro discussions when the battle is way down in the trenches of cell structure and mechanics. Based on these things evos have concluded that some IDers are intellectually lazy and dishonest, and frankly, I tend to agree.

Onward to Kansas... From the evo perspective they believe they are being challenged for the minds of America's youth in their area of expertise by a group of zealots who are trying to subvert the system. Is there anyone here on FR who has watched liberals operate that does not understand "successive approximations to an ultimate goal"?

Connect the dots folks. If we Christians have faith is so weak that we cannot enter into honest debate about this issue then the problem doesn't rest with evolution. Is that to say that these "lovely" qualities are not present on both sides? Not at all; we have all read the exchanges here. But if truth does not win the day then we are no better than Pilot, willing to do and believe whatever is convenient for us. That must never be.

694 posted on 07/28/2006 4:14:06 AM PDT by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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What are Darwinists so afraid of?...............


Ignorance and ignorant people.

726 posted on 07/28/2006 5:59:20 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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It sounds like this twit is a professor of history or sociology.

He should stick to his discipline and stop trying to criticize something he apparently no knowledge of.

The evidence for evolution is so overhwhelming that only a total fanatic or someone totally ignorant of the fact could reject it.

Unfortuantely there are a lot of these. Christian ayatollahs who view everything through a Biblical lens.
Perhaps they should stop driving cars as they aren't mentioned in the Bible.


743 posted on 07/28/2006 6:28:28 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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As I read scientific papers and interviews, I am impressed with how anti-God some of the interviewees are. Their scientific view is what should interest people not their comments about God.


806 posted on 07/28/2006 8:12:25 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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What's a Darwinist?


830 posted on 07/28/2006 9:02:14 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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I think a basic reason, and one probably no evolutionist would admit even to themselves, is if they were to accept the possiblity of the existance of God, they might have to worry about being accountable for their behavior afterall.


1,125 posted on 07/28/2006 7:45:22 PM PDT by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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