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To: BrandtMichaels
Unless or until the next evolution fraud comes to light anyways...

Of the next physics fraud (cold fusion anyone?) or the next chemistry fraud (got an additive that will make your car get 100 MPG?)

Scientific frauds happen. So do other types. The difference is that science has structures to ferret them out and, once discovered, excludes the data from the body.

Not so religion. Scientology continues to operate in the open. As does the LDS.

852 posted on 07/28/2006 10:28:44 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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To: freedumb2003

Well the rules appear to be different for the Evo subject - simply because much of the outright fraud continues to be presented factually in public-school (and even university level) textbooks. I have not noticed this trend with any other area of science.


861 posted on 07/28/2006 10:41:58 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: freedumb2003
The difference is that science has structures to ferret them out . . .

Science does not have a text whereby it may judge the truth of a matter. Whatever structures science may have to ferret out fraud may be fraudulent, too. Is it supposed to be some kind of wonder that science perpetrated a fraud, and then corrected it? To the extent science seeks out something other than intelligent design it will not make heads or tails of an intelligible universe. The physical world behaves according to laws established by a lawgiver. To the extent science chooses to discard this paradigm (which happens to be in accord with the biblical texts) it will veer into either fraud or philsophies of vapid, perhaps harmful, import.

878 posted on 07/28/2006 11:16:20 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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