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To: Last Visible Dog
Is "Right Wing Professor" actually implying the theory of evolution has the same amount of certainty as 2+2=4?

Yes. Evolution is a Fact and a Theory.

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It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.

The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution.

- R. C. Lewontin "Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth" Bioscience 31, 559 (1981) reprinted in Evolution versus Creationism, op cit.


152 posted on 03/01/2004 5:04:25 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
Yes. Evolution is a Fact and a Theory.

It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory...

Ah yes, the blood oath. First ban all opposing data, burn all books containing opposing data, and then require all to swear an oath to the theory.

No that's free thinking....

170 posted on 03/01/2004 5:35:58 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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To: Ichneumon
No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.

That's it. Say you are the same as provable science.

If you do not believe me you do not understand - you are an idiot.

You guys are just like the global warming cloud. Maybe it is science by consensus. Once 51% of the scientists agree, it becomes fact.

All I know for sure that the guy who was smarter than all living scientists combined (Albert Einstein) was a fervent believer in God. Guess I am going to go with the smart guy.
177 posted on 03/01/2004 5:47:49 PM PST by microgood
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To: Ichneumon
It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory,

Gosh, one wonders where the GAYS got THEIR 'boldness' from, with their big 'marriage' push.....

310 posted on 03/02/2004 5:36:00 AM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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