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To: PurpleMountains
There is nothing wrong with teaching evolution in our schools; if anything, modern science has proven Darwin correct with respect to common ancestry and minor evolutionary change, but modern science has also proven that Darwin was wrong to contend that man developed accidentally from a long series of random mutations. That has been shown to be impossible.

Science has not disproved evolution, nor shown it to be impossible. These are standard creationist claims, long since shown to be inaccurate.

There are many links at the following site which provide a more accurate picture of what science has to say about evolution and related subjects: Index to Creationist Claims.

Short of this one feeble argument against the theory of evolution, the rest of this article amounts to a call for censorship of evolution based on a dislike of the potential results of evolutionary thinking.

But I guess if you can't argue against the science, you have to do something, eh?

3 posted on 09/09/2007 9:22:15 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

You are not familiar or discount the recent discoveries made by microbiologists and best popularly reported by Michael Behe. The best efforts of Darwinists have not been able to counter his reports on the discoveries which do what I said, prove common descent and minor changes and disprove evolutionary creation of new forms and species.


4 posted on 09/09/2007 9:44:32 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
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To: Coyoteman
"Science has not disproved evolution, nor shown it to be impossible."

Nor has science proven evolution to occur. It is a theory. An idea in someone's mind. A guess. A figment of one's imagination.

Regardless of how strongly one believes said theory, a group of people believe said theory, or an entire population believes said theory, it is still a theory.

Regardless of how much education one has, or years of experience in any area one has, their belief in said theory does not make it fact. It is still a theory.

That said theory is often discussed as fact, does not make it fact. It is still a theory.

Irrespective of how many articles, reports, research papers, theses, dissertations, and textbooks present said theory as though it were fact, it is still a theory.

Attempting to present said theory as though it were fact is intellectually dishonest, if not outright fraudulent.

Science deals with things that are real, that can be proven via direct physical observation, or via their effects on physical things, as in the case of invisible things like gravity, electricity, light, infrared heat, sound waves, radio waves, etc; and laws such as physical laws, mathematical laws, etc.

Evolution has never been proven scientifically. No one has brought forth any physical evidence proving an occurrance of evolution.

Support for evolution is comprised entirely of belief, conjecture, supposition, assumption, etc.

I have no problem with evolution if it is ever proven.

Until then it is a theory.
10 posted on 09/09/2007 6:27:10 PM PDT by gpk9
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To: Coyoteman
"Science has not disproved evolution, nor shown it to be impossible. These are standard creationist claims, long since shown to be inaccurate."

How many time will you repeat that lie?

The true science of probability has utterly demolished any possibility of evolution being any more than a foolish hallucination.

34 posted on 09/10/2007 8:28:34 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: Coyoteman; PurpleMountains
"Science has not disproved evolution, nor shown it to be impossible."

This, of course, is the well-known fallacy of argument from ignorance. Coyoteman is saying that he gets to believe that evolution is fact until science 'proves' otherwise.

"But I guess if you can't argue against the science, you have to do something, eh?"

Having said that he gets to believe until 'science' *proves* him incorrect, Coyoteman now pretends that science uniquely supports evolution; which it does not.

Were there actually some scientific fact that uniquely supports evolution, he would present it.

For his next trick, Coyoteman will equate fact and opinion.

78 posted on 09/11/2007 5:44:15 AM PDT by GourmetDan
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