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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Should the same be done for creationism? Remind the students that this is religious belief, not based in science?

What "both sides" are you talking about? The case for and against evolution on the basis of what's missing from the scientific record? Or does "both sides" mean evolution and creationism?

And perhaps it would be best if we simply taught the students the meaning of the word "theory", which would probably help you out as well, given that your grasp of the definition of the term seems a bit shaky.

By definition, a theory is "unproven", it is "a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain natural phenomena <a theory of organic evolution." Note that the definition of the word theory nowhere contains the word "fact".

With that information in hand, our students would be even better prepared to deal with the information.


53 posted on 01/18/2005 10:41:15 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

Both sides. The scientists who believing in evolution, and the scientists that don't believe in evolution.

There are scientists on both sides.

There are, in fact, non-religious scientists who don't believe in evolution. Let them and the non-religion scientists who do believe in evolution slug it out. We could start from there....


60 posted on 01/18/2005 10:49:01 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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