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To: Right Wing Professor
A classroom is not where we have free and open scientific enquiry. Students are not free to proclaim that 2+2=5. Mr. Colson should stick to preaching (or burgling).

Your logic is extremely flawed and not well thought out.

The article speaks of critical analysis - what you presented in not analysis - it is a proclimation of certitude(2+2=5)

If this is your attitude about toward critical analysis, I hope your moniker is just for fun because if not you could be sued for malpractice. Is "Right Wing Professor" actually implying the theory of evolution has the same amount of certainty as 2+2=4?

95 posted on 03/01/2004 3:32:30 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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To: Last Visible Dog
The article speaks of critical analysis - what you presented in not analysis - it is a proclimation of certitude(2+2=5)

You're right. I am certain 2+2 is not equal to 5. You aren't?

If this is your attitude about toward critical analysis, I hope your moniker is just for fun because if not you could be sued for malpractice

Are you speaking in your capacity as a lawyer, or as a scientist?

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

Comparable, yes.

99 posted on 03/01/2004 3:37:37 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Last Visible Dog
The article speaks of critical analysis

"Critical analysis" that uses creationist literature as it's source material......

104 posted on 03/01/2004 3:43:28 PM PST by gdani (letting the marketplace decide = conservatism)
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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.

Sample:

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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