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To: Nextrush
I dont remember Last Thursdayism, but I do remember the Moody Bible Institute film talking about God creating the Earth. I hope you aren't offended that I saw such a film in 9th grade Biology, but we just weren't so broad-minded as to blindly believe in evolution.

No one expects you to blindly believe in evolution. If this is the way it was taught to you in biology class then I'm really sorry but this isn't the fault of the Theory of Evolution but rather the quality of your biology lessons.

What I have observed during all these years that I've been active in this debate is that most people who do not accept the ToE have often a completely distorted conception thereof which becomes obvious when they present a ridiculously cartoonish version.
The problem however is, that they still cling to their misconceptions even after they get corrected by other more knowledgeable posters.

Hey do you preach global warming, too?

No, why, do you?

21 posted on 10/20/2005 9:01:11 AM PDT by BMCDA (Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent. -- L. Wittgenstein)
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To: BMCDA
The problem however is, that they still cling to their misconceptions even after they get corrected by other more knowledgeable posters.

What that tells us is that, in all too many cases, it's not ignorance at all. At best, it's willful ignorance, and at worst it's knowingly spreading falsehoods.

24 posted on 10/20/2005 9:10:24 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BMCDA

Observing the general knowledge level of FR global warming critics has led me to suspect they are probably wrong about this also. I'm not a chicken little yet, but it's easy to see why GW skeptics are being ignored.


25 posted on 10/20/2005 9:11:24 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: BMCDA

I'm a fairly schooled layman on ToE. You're right, some have a cartoonish vision of what it actually covers. However...

While ToE explains a great deal about the development of living forms on earth, it does not completely explain it, there is a whole level which it does not address.

I find it objectionable as well when some scientists overreach as well, ascribing to ToE as complete in itself in explaining all knowledge possible about the development of life when an important aspect is beyond science's capability to describe.


39 posted on 10/20/2005 9:57:01 AM PDT by D-fendr
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