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To: ml1954
Good luck on trying to stop evolution from being taught, if that's what you want.

That's not what I want at all. But it's sad that students aren't taught any of the evidence that suggests that something else might be at work. Why is it that we can't seem to create one-foot-tall fruit flies? That after fruit flies get to be so big they become sterile and we can't make any bigger ones? If we could create one-foot-tall fruit flies then they certainly couldn't mate with their one-centimeter-tall 99th cousins and we'd have created a new species. But we can't. There's something that seems to keep species within certain bounds. What is that something? Is it encoded in DNA? Do all species seem to have it? How is that bounding bypassed to create new species? Do viruses play a role?

There are other solutions besides initial_life + natural_selection(chance_mutations * billions_of_years) = all_the_varied_life_of_today and void + Gods_Word - science = all_the_varied_life_of_today

All I'd like to say is that people can choose not to believe (evolution) it if they want

Not really. If you "choose" not to believe in evolution and you speak out about it, you're harassed... branded an idiot or a religious nutcase (some will even compare you to OBL). Now.. I'll admit... the ignorant label is largely the fault of the anti-evolutionists themselves. When the anti-evolutionists speaking the loudest say things like evolution contradicts the second law of thermodynamics... well, what else could you expect? But the evolutionists have taken so strongly to defending their theory that they no longer allow rational discussion on the topic. If you do something as innocent as point out that evolution is only a theory, you're "corrected" and informed that in science, theory means the only rational way to explain known facts.

maybe someone someday will come discover a better scientific theory that explains the evidence... If that happens, evolution will be retired. But it seems highly unlikely.

Newtonian physicists would have said the same thing before Einstein came along. It's the arrogance of mankind (not to be taken as a personal attack... We've all got it.) Most of us probably believe the US will be around forever, too. The Romans had a similar notion.

272 posted on 01/26/2005 10:48:35 AM PST by bigLusr (Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur)
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To: bigLusr
Why is it that we can't seem to create one-foot-tall fruit flies?

The nature of insect respiration and the fact that surface area increases as a square and volume as a cube.

283 posted on 01/26/2005 11:01:27 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: bigLusr

All I'd like to say is that people can choose not to believe (evolution) it if they want

Not really. If you "choose" not to believe in evolution and you speak out about it, you're harassed... branded an idiot or a religious nutcase (some will even compare you to OBL).

Someone can choose not accept the theory of evolution, but if that someone tries to convince others who do accept it that they are wrong, well then they've got to expect rebuttal of their argument.

And if someone challenges scientific theories with religious beliefs and tries to get those taught in a public school they can expect resistance and being compared with others who do the same now and have done the same throughout history.

290 posted on 01/26/2005 11:07:37 AM PST by ml1954
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