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To: VadeRetro

I was simply commenting that it appears the Templeton Foundation is willing to fund research that might confirm/prove evolution.

As you certainly must know, it has been my long-held position that both evolution and ID are models rather than theories.


126 posted on 01/02/2006 7:00:49 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: connectthedots
No, you added this bit of analysis: "... if it was a fact, why does it need further research?"

The question implies that anything established as fact need not and should not be researched. Science thus should NEVER ask "Why?" if you're right. The only legitimate question is "Is that fact or non-fact?"

I'd guess most research is aimed at understanding something we know to be true but not necessarily why it is true. As we sometimes patiently explain to creationists here, "Theories do not grow up to be laws. Theories explain laws."

Anyway, you can fight it out with those of your side condemning evolutionists for never asking "Why?" We seem to be getting it from both sides just now.

Your puzzlement is reflective of some misconception that science is reasoned and argued the way religion seems to be, from supposedly revealed authority and supposedly unshakeable fact. That's why people from your side are always telling us evolution is religion. That may appear true if you think everything is about religion, or you just don't know any other way of approaching things.

127 posted on 01/02/2006 7:15:23 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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