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To: Antonello
Even if you seriously feel academic institutions of higher learning are in decline, I would find it hard to believe you would liken that any 'damage' they have caused to humanity eclipses the likes of the Holocaust, Pol Pot, bloody 'ethnic cleansing' rampages, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Saddam's death machine, etc....

Granted that the Holocaust, Pol Pot, ethnic cleansing, etc. were terrible things, they are not teaching the next generation that these are good things. Also, you are mentioning events not present day institutions.

I was not aware that atheism had surpassed fundamentalism in regards to becoming a dominant culture.

You must be kidding. While the American majority still profess belief in God, this is hardly true for the ruling intelligentsia, i.e. the media, academia, the courts, etc.

The evidence is overwhelming. The refusal to accept it does not make the claim that there is none valid. The claim that the assertions by evolutionists are 'dogmatic' means either the author doesn't understand the evidence, the definition of 'dogmatic', or is being disingenuous.

You obviously do not understand the difference between theory and observation. Naturalistic evolution can only posit what might have happened (I am talking here about the why of evolution, not the demonstration that there has been a sequence of species), it cannot show that it actually did. It might very well have happened the way they explain it but evolutionist go beyond the proper limits of sciences to insist that it must have. Where evolution differs from the other sciences is that it is trying to explain what happened in the past rather than what happens now and can be repeated.

I guess your litany of errors was erroneous.

6 posted on 11/03/2005 4:58:09 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
Naturalistic evolution can only posit what might have happened (I am talking here about the why of evolution, not the demonstration that there has been a sequence of species), it cannot show that it actually did. It might very well have happened the way they explain it but evolutionist go beyond the proper limits of sciences to insist that it must have. Where evolution differs from the other sciences is that it is trying to explain what happened in the past rather than what happens now and can be repeated.

Nonsense. It can demonstrate, beyond reasonable doubt, what did happen. And evolution is happening in the present, and can be repeated.

9 posted on 11/04/2005 11:06:10 AM PST by Right Wing Professor (If you love peace, prepare for war. If you hate violence, own a gun.)
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