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To: PatrickHenry
Local and out-of-state lobbying groups will try to convince the board that the next generation of biology books should contain new scientific evidence that reportedly pokes holes in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

They need to try keeping up.

"Darwin's Theory of Evolution" is as obsolete as "Newton's theory of Gravity".
Today science has moved on to much more precise theorums, Punctuated Equilibrium Evolution and General Relativity.

So9

11 posted on 07/09/2003 12:27:04 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (Real Texicans; we're grizzled, we're grumpy and we're armed)
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To: Servant of the Nine
"Darwin's Theory of Evolution" is as obsolete as "Newton's theory of Gravity".

That's not a bad analogy. Newton's equations are still quite adequate for NASA to launch satellites and steer probes to other planets. The algorithms for computing transfer orbits do not need to factor in relativity.

But at the fine level, relativity provides more precision, especially when dealing with extremes of velocity or gravity.

In a similar way, Darwin's primary hypothesis of variation and selection is still completely valid, but has been refined over the decades, and further refined by molecular biology.

22 posted on 07/09/2003 12:35:15 PM PDT by js1138
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To: Servant of the Nine
Today science has moved on to much more precise theorums, Punctuated Equilibrium Evolution and General Relativity.

Next your going to tell me that Ether and Phlogiston are no longer part of cutting edge theory.

116 posted on 07/09/2003 2:11:02 PM PDT by RogueIsland
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