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Posted on 08/02/2005 4:16:26 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Ok. Thanks. Did you read what I posted?
Remember Piltdown Man, Eugenics, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" and all that other discarded cr@p?
It's about time scientists found one story and stuck to it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have the demons that are causing this fever driven from me.
Me. Using a time machine and a 10 pack from Taco Bell.
And I demand this theory be taught in schools.
Bush is wrong.
Yes I did. Good post. I don't agree with all of it but it was reasonable.
First, that's not true. Stalin, for example, promoted Lysenko and persecuted evolutionary biologists for decades.
Second, Osama bin Laden is a Creationist. So tell me, when are you going to start hijacking airliners?
Most unfortunately, you are correct. When a nation, or religion, discards objectivity they go the way of modern Islam or communist Russia.
Oe may argue that technlogy is safe even if science is not, but having a set of blinders installed at a young age limits the ability to progress in all areas.
Revelation 4:11
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Apparently scientists were all wrong about electomagnetism and electricity doesn't actually exist, so please stop using it. Kindly unplug your computer.
The Big Bang and Evolution take at least as much faith to believe as Creationism and Intelligent Design do. Why do folks get so upset when people feel that exposure to all the theories is recommended? Doesn't science require a full look at all the information/possibilities available? If you want to prove one, it seems it would be healthy to try to disprove alternates; how can you do that if you don't even allow a look at the alternates?
Evolution has lost precisely zero ground.
The teaching of scientific thought and methods has.
Not the same thing at all.
As a complete side note, I really appreciated your tag line...:; i went to the blog, and found your report on Al Franken.
He is 5 foot 3 Inches Tall? I'm going to work now, but I just wanted to let you know, I really appreciated learning this.
I really did. I'm still laughing....
Yeah, but this'll have less impact than his other very occasional boners (e.g. steel tariffs).
If evolution IS the Truth let it experience competition. Let the weaker theory fall. It works in economics. It works in the political sphere where conservative ideology is slowly becoming dominant.Do you mean competition among the knowledgable and educated in the appropriate field? Then evolution wins, hands down. If you want to count the opinions of the bible-thumping, snake-handling, mouth-breathing moron group, then creationism might make some kind of showin'. But then you aren't talking about science...
Dead end subordinate schools of thought and intermittent frauds are reason enough to abandon the whole of it? Then we'll have to get rid of any field of knowledge or beliefs, even religion.
Repeat all you like.
Just don't call it science.
When our biologists stand back in awe and say "Its a miracle, just like we were taught in school" and Chinese scientists say "Let's see if can use this evolutionary principle that we learned in school to create a nifty new bio-weapon" we're the ones who get the Darwin award.
Yeah, Al Franken is a little bitty guy. He never stood right by me so I can't say for sure that he's not a little taller than me, but if he is, it's not by much. He's very short and dumpy and waddles a bit when he walks. I got quite a kick out of seeing him "in person!"
That's not what the evidence shows.
If you have a strong faith you do not need to misrepresent the facts. Does you and your position no good.
How can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you can't even get the kindergarten level physics correct. When water freezes it does not lose mass, it loses density because it's volume expands while it's mass remains constant.
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