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To: The_Reader_David
Ann hits *a* nail squarely on the head when she points out the Darwinism functions as a creation myth for liberals.

Actually, evolution is a creation myth only for Conservatives. Other know it's a theory of descent and adaption irrespective of any creation method. Ann's ignorance of the subject isn't unexpected in a lawyer.

19 posted on 06/09/2006 6:45:20 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
"Actually, evolution is a creation myth only for Conservatives."

Oh, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that all the pro-evolution/pro-science folks who post on the "Crevo" threads here at Free Republic are conservatives. I know "I" am.

Make that "some" Conservatives, and you'll be right.

37 posted on 06/09/2006 7:05:47 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

I guess you haven't noticed that the sociological use of the word 'myth', unlike the popular usaged, does *not* imply falsehood, rather denotes a story fundamental to a world-view irrespective of its truth or falsehood.

Also don't confuse creation per se with creation ex nihilo. The Hindus have a creation myth, but their cyclic cosmology only allows for the creation of the present state of the present cycle from the detritus of the previous cycle. So, the present state of the world, human beings included, has been created by something. The question (with all the heat created by folks on both sides defending their respective creation myths removed) is how much of that is explained by various dynamical mechanisms governing the changes of allele frequency, and how much of it is due to something (whether material or immaterial) prior (if not temporally, then logically) to that dynamics beginning.


212 posted on 06/09/2006 2:40:02 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
"Ann's ignorance of the subject isn't unexpected in a lawyer."

*ROTFLMAO*

The only thing bigger than a typical lawyer's ego, is, well, another lawyer's ego....

940 posted on 06/18/2006 2:04:14 AM PDT by Al Simmons (Hillary Clinton is Stalin in a Dress)
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