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To: GSHastings
As everyone knows, economics is not a natural science [may be we should call it an unnatural science]. If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still would not come to an agreement. OTOH, medicine, biology, chemistry, astrophysics etc. are empirical natural sciences with broad areas of consensus in each field. Evolution happens to be one of these areas of scientific consensus. And to go against a scientific consensus one better be a top flight scientist in the field and not merely a third rate professor in a fourth rate university or a high school teacher. Hence "chutzpah".
If I come down with an appendicitis, for example, I would go for a consensus treatment and will seek a traditional surgeon, and not a faith healer. [I strongly suspect that I'm not alone in that]. More, if a faith healer happens around at the time with either prayers or charms and amulets, he/she/it could count on as much abuse from me as I would be capable of dishing out in such a situation.
121 posted on 09/29/2005 10:20:46 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: GSlob
Evolution happens to be one of these areas of scientific consensus

How can anyone observe the human Pie-Hole and believe that it evolved? It's irreducibly complex.

123 posted on 09/29/2005 10:27:13 PM PDT by GSHastings
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