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To: elfman2
It's a mild pejorative in a scientific context, just like calling ID "Creationism".

Actually Darwinism is a subset of Evolution. De Veries and Bateson are evolutionists but not Darwinists. As I understand the conventional wisdom, their ideas are rejected while Darwin's are embraced - or at least revered.

As for ID vs Creationism, I wasn't commenting on that. But Creationism is obviously a subset of ID. Suggesting that ID is restricted to Genesis is just wrong.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 11/13/2005 8:46:16 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

De Veries and Bateson are as irrelevant to evolution as animism is to ID. Labeling evolutionary science “Darwinism” is an attempt to discredit it through its first 19th century proponent. Calling ID a superset of Creationism is just an attempt to mask its Christian origins, motivation and backing.

If there was a a case for ID, its proponents wouldn’t have to sink to misrepresentations.


10 posted on 11/13/2005 11:23:33 AM PST by elfman2
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