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To: Captain Rhino
All the author is pointing out is that some portion of the scientific community itself feels the evidence to support the theory of evolution as currently understood is lacking.

If science were undergoing such a controversy, it wouldn't need creationist whack jobs setting quote-mine snares for idiots to tell it that this is going on.

191 posted on 07/22/2006 12:41:23 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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To: VadeRetro

Your statement would be true IF there was not so much pressure to conform to the "party line" on the theory of evolution (and other elements of the current cannon of scientific knowledge) within the academic and scientific community.

Not sure if you accessed the link at the end of my previous post but you might take a look at it. The scientist discussed there is not exactly outside the mainsteam scientific community. The article cites figures of 40% of the scientific community having religious beliefs (whatever that means.) But 40% (however large) is a minority and fear of being isolated and dismissed or debarred from research by the majority for un-PC holdings could be a pretty powerful incentive for a dissenting community to keep their collective mouths shut. So the question is:

"Is the notable lack of controversy you cite really evidence of a lack of controversy or is it evidence of an effective campaign to suppress dissenting views?"


206 posted on 07/22/2006 1:21:51 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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