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To: Stultis
...isn't the substance of his theory, and modern versions thereof, more important?

If it is presented as it actually is, that is, as theory and not fact.

It is taught by many, that his theory on Origin of the Species is fact, when his book of the same name does not even pretend to show how species originated.

I understand a lot about the theory of electronics as I worked in the field for 40 years, but it is still taught as theory. Nobody claims to know for fact how it all works.

That doesn't stop anyone from using the theorys to make things work. We just don't make it like religeous dogma the way evolution theorists do.

301 posted on 12/28/2005 8:35:52 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Dan(9698)
It is taught by many, that his theory on Origin of the Species is fact,

It is both theory *and* fact. For example, it is a fact that speciation via Darwin's mechanisms has been observed.

when his book of the same name does not even pretend to show how species originated.

You obviously haven't read it.

I understand a lot about the theory of electronics as I worked in the field for 40 years, but it is still taught as theory. Nobody claims to know for fact how it all works.

Nor does anyone claim to know for a fact how all of evolutionary biology works. Operative word being "all". We do, however, know for a fact how many parts of it work, just as we know for a fact how many facets of the field of electronics behave and interact.

That doesn't stop anyone from using the theorys to make things work.

Ditto for evolutionary theory.

We just don't make it like religeous dogma the way evolution theorists do.

No one treats evolutionary biology as "religious" dogma either, and your repeating this silly claim over and over again doesn't make it any more true. Not even if you stamp your feet and hold your breath until you turn blue.

Here, read this: Creationist Claim CA610: Evolution is a religion.

Also read: God and Evolution , and Is Science a Religion?.

309 posted on 12/28/2005 8:49:55 PM PST by Ichneumon
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