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1 posted on 11/01/2003 4:14:00 AM PST by I Am Not A Mod
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I don't understand why the evolution theory threatens some christians. Sure, the theory is incomplete. But, it makes sense. Evolution in no way denies or disproves God.
2 posted on 11/01/2003 4:25:12 AM PST by Dudoight
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I don't understand why the evolution theory threatens some christians. Sure, the theory is incomplete. But, it makes sense. Evolution in no way denies or disproves God.
3 posted on 11/01/2003 4:25:13 AM PST by Dudoight
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Better than what? Do these discussions tend to get nasty?
4 posted on 11/01/2003 4:42:06 AM PST by somemoreequalthanothers
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I need to get to bed and don't have time for a more detailed and documented response, but in short this woman has obviously been reading way too many creationist pamphlets and far too few scientific journals.

The only way that anyone can honestly claim that evolution is not as well supported as other fields of science is for them to be vastly unfamiliar with the field.

5 posted on 11/01/2003 4:49:12 AM PST by Ichneumon
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My book features lots of stories of people who have suffered career damage simply for saying that they believe that Darwinism is not true.

Truely sad when speaking out against a lie causes harm to people's life. Especially in the USA.

6 posted on 11/01/2003 4:49:49 AM PST by HalfFull
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The Blind Atheist
7 posted on 11/01/2003 4:58:31 AM PST by Raymond Hendrix
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Pong.
11 posted on 11/01/2003 6:55:43 AM PST by Physicist
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bump
15 posted on 11/01/2003 7:53:33 AM PST by Ahban
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Natural selection means that only those organisms that survive and breed leave offspring, so their traits are passed on.

The author doesn't explain her objections to this observations.

16 posted on 11/01/2003 8:07:23 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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Evolution is under fire? If you didn't follow American politics you would not be aware of this "controversy". There is nothing in the biological scientific literature that suggests a rethinking of the validity of evolution.
18 posted on 11/01/2003 8:56:27 AM PST by Youngblood
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But Darwinism is more than a theory in science. It is the chief prop of an approach to science called methodological naturalism. Put simply, this approach means that law and chance are assumed to govern everything in the universe. In principle, design is ruled out.

Bears repeating.

19 posted on 11/01/2003 9:02:04 AM PST by Tribune7 (It's not like he let his secretary drown in his car or something.)
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You're missing the fun on the evolution of life thread.
34 posted on 11/01/2003 3:27:30 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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