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To: dark_lord
If the TOE didn't exist the biological sciences wouldn't even notice.

All the biologists that I work with (and have worked with in the past) disagree with you. There are many journals devoted to evolutionary theory. I suggest that you peruse a good univerity library's collection of biology journals and check the number of articles on evolutionary theory.

2,091 posted on 08/09/2003 8:14:16 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
There are many journals devoted to evolutionary theory. I suggest that you peruse a good univerity library's collection of biology journals and check the number of articles on evolutionary theory.

I concur that there are many such journals. However, peruse the articles therein and you will find that few relate to the TOE. They tend to focus on real scienctific work. But scientists are subject to the academic "publish or perish" credo. So you will find articles such as "The human penis as a semen displacement device" or "Matriliny as daughter-biased investment" in Evolution and Human Behavior - The Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society; or "Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe" in the "Journal of Human Evolution".

I concede that paleontologists probably wouldn't get published unless there were evolution focused journals, but I suspect just about everyone else would.

The fact is, hardly any articles relate to the TOE. The journals provide a convenient framework for publishing. If the theory du jure was ID, I think precisely the same articles would be published -- since for any practical purpose there is no way to distinguish between ID and TOE based on observation.

2,096 posted on 08/09/2003 8:34:27 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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