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Don’t Call it “Darwinism” [religiously defended as "science" by Godless Darwinists]
springerlink ^ | 16 January 2009 | Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch

Posted on 01/28/2009 11:36:17 AM PST by Coyoteman

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To: grey_whiskers

ROTFLOL! If I was the only one in the store and all the registers were free, the one I picked would be the one that crashes.


941 posted on 01/30/2009 9:15:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian; metmom; tpanther
“I am in favor only of eliminating Christianity from science classes.” [excerpt]
If we do that, then things like eugenics become morally acceptable in the science class.

And then when those students get out into the real world and start getting elected to public offices and making executive decisions, they will be making those decisions based on what they learned in science class.

The only reason I can think that someone would want to eliminate Christianity and the moral restraints that it brings, is if they wanted to promote things like euthanasia and eugenics.
942 posted on 01/30/2009 9:19:31 PM PST by Fichori (I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
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To: Fichori

Watch, now he’ll redefine *scorn* and *Christianity*, along with *I*, and *don’t*.


943 posted on 01/30/2009 9:19:44 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Why are you changing the subject?

I must have missed something. I asked what it was about Darwinism people should be disabused of. You replied "the Ascent of Man." I point out that Darwin never wrote about "the ascent of man," and you accuse me of changing the subject???

So far, one person has claimed that Darwin's responsible for an idea because he didn't specifically disavow it, and now you say he's responsible for a phrase he didn't write because someone else did. It's hard to get a fix on exactly what "Darwinism" is supposed to be, since there doesn't seem to be a requirement that it have anything to do with what Darwin himself actually wrote. I'm starting to think that "Darwinism" just means "anything I don't like about science or the modern world."

944 posted on 01/30/2009 9:20:41 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Fichori; metmom
Sounds like scorn to me...

As usual you are confused. I certainly love to deride (that is scorn to you) home schooled born againers like yourself who claim to be be Christians, but I have a very high degree of respect for many of the 'Christian' teachings.

It is possible that I am wrong and that you and Metmom are Christianity. Are you claiming that is the case?

945 posted on 01/30/2009 9:26:54 PM PST by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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To: LeGrande; Fichori

Bingo, Fichori....

I wasn’t homeschooled.


946 posted on 01/30/2009 9:37:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
I'm starting to think that "Darwinism" just means "anything I don't like about science or the modern world."

No, not really. The problem is with the scientific popularizers and journalists, who (mis)translate what little they know of science for mass consumption.

It is they who have popularized in the culture the idea of "The Ascent of Man" -- which leads to the "if man is here why are there still monkeys" and the idea that evolution works by the successive replacements of one species by a "superior" one.

Most of what the science says ("changes in allele frequency within a population") is inaccessible to the lay person, since they don't know the words, nor do they always have the background to (correctly) interpret the scientific claims. So they are left jousting at (very) approximate windmills.

Cheers!

947 posted on 01/30/2009 9:38:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: LeGrande; metmom; grey_whiskers; tpanther; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; wagglebee; YHAOS; ...
“I certainly love to deride (that is scorn to you) home schooled born againers like yourself who claim to be be Christians,” [excerpt]
In other words your a liberal troll who comes here to bash conservative Christians.

At least you have the decency to be honest about it.
948 posted on 01/30/2009 10:41:24 PM PST by Fichori (I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Given the ZOT, it's apparent he was trying to replicate Urey and Miller. FAIL. LOL good one Grey!!! Nice word play there I like it. 8-)
949 posted on 01/30/2009 11:28:22 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Fichori; LeGrande; metmom; grey_whiskers; tpanther; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; wagglebee; ...
“I certainly love to deride (that is scorn to you) home schooled born againers like yourself who claim to be be Christians,” [excerpt]

In other words your a liberal troll who comes here to bash conservative Christians. At least you have the decency to be honest about it.

Give the child a break, as it's about all he has going for him.

He certainly isn't very effective at it.

In fact, we can respond with his "waiting for Godot" attitude with a line from the play:

Hey, "Come on, LeGrande, return the ball, can't you, once in a while?"

So I think we should just rename him Waiting for Zot.

Cheers!

950 posted on 01/31/2009 3:13:04 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
"Where did you look it up? Is it from a commonly accepted source?"

My printed Oxford English Dictionary and online. The coining of the word actually pre-dates Charles Darwin's theory, and referred specifically to Erasmus' concept. IMHO, the OED is "the" standard source for correct English usage.

951 posted on 01/31/2009 3:26:38 AM PST by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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To: count-your-change
"First error: You have no references just a statement you make."

And neither did you, buddy.

"Second error: I am not a creationist."

Your postings say otherwise.

"Third error: Several searches gave C. Darwin as the source of “Darwinism” as did ‘The Online Etymology Dictionary’."

Try the Oxford English dictionary.

"Fourth error: Calling me an idiot."

If the shoe fits.

"Darwinism is correct for the Darwin's evolution theory and hence I will continue to use."

And you'll continue to be an idiot.

952 posted on 01/31/2009 3:31:18 AM PST by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Thanks for the clarification...but that didn't leave the other questions resolved.

I wasn't trying to play *gotcha*, but to point out that there may be other less authoritative, or less august sources which still support the "Darwinism means evolution" populist usage.

(How many of the people on Jay Leno's Jaywalking -- not a decidedly fundamentalist group -- would define Darwinism as evolution, if they've heard of anything more than last week's American Idol?)

Cheers!

953 posted on 01/31/2009 4:02:23 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: wagglebee
Darwin, Huxley, Galton, Keynes, Sanger, Hitler, yeah they are all "fictional."

Julian Huxley, who put together Evolution: The Modern Synthesis was president of a society that started both the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Marie Stopes foundation. Marie Stopes was a member of the Eugenics Society. Jonathan Stopes-Roe, her grandson, was a director of Rationalist Press Association, a publisher of anti-Christian propaganda (and evolution books of course.)

954 posted on 01/31/2009 4:49:26 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Wonder Warthog; count-your-change
Wikipedia has some interesting history here.

Yeah, yeah, Wikipedia, I know.

How's this:

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Cheers!

955 posted on 01/31/2009 4:57:46 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 1000 silverlings
What experiments have been done to test evolution?

Here's one from the 1928 book Creation by Evolution. It is a compendium of papers from the creme-de-la-creme of evolution scientists of the time. Edited by Frances Mason. The book was endorsed by Nobel Laureate Sherrington (a eugenist.) He testifies in the introduction that the authors are "eminent authorities." These are exerpts.

Can We See Evolution Occurring?, pg. 24--33, Herbert Spencer Jennings:

The doctrine of organic evolution is the doctrine that animals and plants are slowly transforming, producing new kinds; that they have done this in the past and are continuing to do it now. It does not deal with something transcendental, something metaphysical; it deals with processes as real as the running of a stream or the growth of a tree. Organic evolution, then, is a physiological process, like the digestion of food; it is something that is occurring at all times, including the present. The doctrine of organic evolution means simply that if you lived long enough you would see organisms begin as simple creatures, change shape and structure as a growing plant does, become diverse, transform repeatedly, until from one or a few types many would be produced. You would get dissolving views of amoeba transforming to creatures having more definite structures and greater complexity; of Hipparion becoming a horse; of an ape-like creature becoming a man.

In a human lifetime or in many human lifetimes we could not expect these changes to be great. Geological time is enormously long and evolution is prodigiously slow. The doctrine of evolution would therefore not lead us to expect to see widely diverse creatures produced. The popular demand that we should see a cat, or the offspring of a cat, transformed into a dog, or an amoeba into a vertebrate, is not in accord with the doctrine of evolution. We cannot expect in a lifetime to see new "species" produced. All that the doctrine of evolution leads us to expect is that there should appear slight hereditary changes, so that from a single race there are produced a number of hereditarily diverse races, differing slightly.

Do we find this? Studies of this sort have been made of a number of organisms. What was found in such a study made by the present writer may be set forth as a type.

It is common to suggest that amoeba or some amoeba-like creature is the original stock from which animals descended; "from amoeba to man" is a common phrase. It is of interest to examine amoebas from this point of view. Are amoebas still transforming, producing other kinds of animals? Some of the amoebas are naked and formless, so that the detection of any slight hereditary changes would be almost impossible. Others have shells of definite form and structure, furnishing excellent opportunity for the detection of hereditary alterations. These shelled amoebas, though they closely resemble the naked ones, are designated by other names. One called Difflugia corona (Fig. 1) was selected for observation and breeding... A new generation is produced about every two to four days, so that in the course of a year or two many generations may be followed through thousands of descendants produced from one individual.

Do these thousands of descendants all remain hereditarily alike. Or do they gradually and slowly diverge, becoming hereditarily different, as the doctrine of evolution sets forth?

This was studied by allowing a single individual to reproduce for many generations, until it had produced thousands of offspring. In the early generations of such an experiment, hereditary changes cannot be detected. The offspring often differ from the parents in certain respects, but most of these differences appear not to be inherited. The next generation shows similar differences, but as the generations increase in number we find that certain diversities accumulate and become hereditary. In some descendants the spines become longer; in others they remain shorter. In some the bodies are larger; in others they are smaller. Different combinations of size of bodies and of length of spine appear. These differences are inherited. In time from the original single individual a number of diverse stocks have been formed.

What the doctrine of evolution asserts is therefore true for Difflugia. It does gradually transform and produce new races. If this is what evolution means, we have here seen evolution occurring.

Remember that there are two opposite doctrines. One holds that the constitution of organisms is permanent; that they were created as they are and do not change. The other, the doctrine of evolution, holds that the hereditary constitution slowly changes as generations pass; that a single race differentiates in the course of time into diverse ones; that from one stock many are produced. The critical observations that have been made on these minute living organisms through the passage of generations substantiates this theory; they do change and differentiate into diverse races as generations pass. The facts observed are what the doctrine of evolution demands, not what the opposed theory demands.

The evidence of evolution has been read in the rocks and the structures of plants and animals, but under the microscope Dr. Jennings is able to follow evolution not as a theory but as a thing that is actually taking place. —Frances Mason, editor.

956 posted on 01/31/2009 4:57:55 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: grey_whiskers
I wasn't trying to play *gotcha*, but to point out that there may be other less authoritative, or less august sources which still support the "Darwinism means evolution" populist usage.

Well, Alfred Wallace wrote a book called "Darwinism". Really, how can anyone ask that thousands of references to "Darwinism" in books be erased or semantically eradicated? It's typical Darwinian arrogance to demand such things.

957 posted on 01/31/2009 5:12:34 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Is the Britannica august enough?

“Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Darwinism
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Theory of the evolutionary mechanism proposed by Charles Darwin as an explanation of organic change. It denotes Darwin's specific view of how evolution works. Darwin developed the concept that evolution is brought about by the interplay of three principles: variation (present in all forms of life), heredity (the force that transmits similar organic form from one generation to another), and the struggle for existence (which determines the variations that will be advantageous in a given environment, thus altering the species through selective reproduction). Present knowledge of the genetic basis of inheritance has contributed to scientists’ understanding of the mechanisms behind Darwin's ideas, in a theory known as neo-Darwinism.”

Or T.H. Huxley's use concurrent enough?

” a b Huxley, T.H. (April 1860). “ART. VIII.- Darwin on the origin of Species” 541–70. Westminster Review. Retrieved on 2008-06-19. “What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular?”
What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? Twenty years hence naturalists may be in a position to say whether this is, or is not, the case; but in either event they will owe the author of “The Origin of Species” an immense debt of gratitude...... And viewed as a whole, we do not believe that, since the publication of Von Baer’s “Researches on Development,” thirty years ago, any work has appeared calculated to exert so large an influence, not only on the future of Biology, but in extending the domination of Science over regions of thought into which she has, as yet, hardly penetrated”

Orbit of (hush my moufff) Darwinism?

Arrogance attempting to dictate language.

958 posted on 01/31/2009 5:29:43 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Fichori; LeGrande
That, along with this in post 708

It is up to you. You have the freedom to choose. That is what discrimination and intolerance is all about, making a choice. If you take away someones power to make a choice you are taking away their freedom.

So, I asked him if he was saying that he is pro-choice and he never answered.

959 posted on 01/31/2009 6:14:28 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Fichori; metmom

The only reason I can think that someone would want to eliminate Christianity and the moral restraints that it brings, is if they wanted to promote things like euthanasia and eugenics.


Liberlas think they’re Gods, and the best judges of how science should work in the world morally and otherwise, but by the empirical evidence they leave behind it’s clear that they’re mistaken.

They, in fact are the only ones incapable and unable of interpreting that very empirical evidence they’ve left behind WHILE DEMANDING to be the keepers of understanding ALL scientific interpretations!

If their results only affected them that would be one thing...


960 posted on 01/31/2009 6:28:13 AM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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