Another fundamentalist fights to preserve ignorance as a way of life!
Posted on 05/27/2004 8:16:55 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
Pingo
and high time that it should.
In the same show, Carl Sagan also said that in science: .."the only truth is that there are no truths." Evolution is only a theory in science. It has no place in religion, just as religious doctrine (not morality) has no place in science.
And yes, I know Sagan was an atheist. So what!
Intelligent Design dittos. Students should be taught to think for themselves and analyze facts associated with issues such as evolution, creation, global warming, intelligent design. Just give them the hypotheses and theories and state that we haven't a clue how we got here.
What a stupid leap in logic. Organic life is not the same as a computer's database. If this is indeed the basis of ID, then it's a "theory" predicated on a faulty analogy.
The Bible makes no mention of dinosaurs, therefore they cannot have existed. The fossil evidence to the contrary.
With this phrase the author stepped into the abyss of ignorance.
Typical logical error. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Would you care to place bets?
The author just seems to want to go from one unprovable, not-able-to-be-tested theory to another, while calling one science (ID) and the other religion (evolution).
No thanks. I prefer my science to aggressively pursue that which is not known, over a science that shrugs and says, we cannot know this, so let's stop trying (as the author seems to want with the quote "Why can't there be something far bigger and superior in the universe (or outside it) that we never can explain?"
This needs to be said over and over. Evolution is not based on evidence, it is a Religious postulation.
"What a stupid leap in logic. Organic life is not the same as a computer's database. If this is indeed the basis of ID, then it's a "theory" predicated on a faulty analogy."
Exactly. The simplest example is the influenza virus. Every year, new mutations appear in the virus, making old immunities obsolete. We work really hard to create new vaccines to keep up with the mutations in the flu virus.
Every change in an information system does NOT necessarily destroy it. And DNA is, indeed an information system.
What nonsense. Evolution is fact as recorded in recent history. Dachsunds have evolved from other breeds. That this evolution is not the result of natural selection is beside the point; there were no dachsunds on the ark. They have only existed in recent times. They were selectively bred for hunting badgers. That is evolution.
Where did the article say that organic life was the same as a computer's database? But DNA does certainly contain information.
Thanks for your reply!
If evolution is a fact...then why do mothers still only have two hands?
Because they can still get by with only two. I don't see mothers "dropping the ball" too bad yet.
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