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To: PhilipFreneau
I thought it was the other way around. I thought any scientist who strayed from the Evolution Plantation would be ostracized and marginalized by the elite?

You are laughably misinformed about how science works. New ideas that have evidence to back them are avidly seized upon. Everyone wants to be the amongst the first into new fields, with all the opportunities for new discoveries that exist in a ground-breaking area. What creationists never explain is what motive individual scientists would have for taking part in an insane worldwide century-long conspiracy to attack fundamentalist Christianity and Islam, when to break ranks carries such huge rewards if your beliefs are true. The problem with creationism/ID isn't that it is new, it is that it is a ten-thousand year old idea that has produced no results to-date. 150 years of evolutionary-biology OTOH has produced numerous stunning predictions, and been vindicated in numerous ways that Darwin couldn't have imagined, as our scientific techniques deepen and widen. I remember when the creationists predicted that the molecular genomic data would falsify evolution. Well, they were sure wrong about that, instead the genomic data has provided yet another vindication of evolution; all the predictions made by ToE about how the genomes would stack up have been met. Copying errors, viral insertions, and neutral mutations are preserved in the same tree of life as is indicated by morphology and other cladistic techniques.

145 posted on 10/27/2005 12:01:49 AM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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To: Thatcherite
"150 years of evolutionary-biology OTOH has produced numerous stunning predictions"

Would you mind sharing a few of those "stunning predictions"? The idea that the evolutionary model predicts something is curious to me.

147 posted on 10/27/2005 5:23:58 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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