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To: MRMEAN
But in truth most people nowadays do believe evolution's basics--which is to say that species evolve--and most people believe that natural selection explains part of the change or adaptation. Where there is doubt or disagreement, as there always has been, is over whether natural selection explains everything.

CODSWALLOP. The dissenters from evolution are overwhelmingly creationists whose main objection is that evolution contradicts the account of Genesis.

A couple of years ago, there was some letter signed by some hundreds of Ph.D. scientists expressing dissent from Darwinism. I was curious, and as many of them had put their email addresses after their names, I emailed everyone on the list with a few questions. Mostly, I wanted to know whether they accepted or rejected the notion of common descent.

I got dozens of responses; I even had one stop by my office at Penn for a chat. All except a very few REJECTED the notion of common descent.

I had intended to publish my result, but after a day or two many of the respondees wrote back, churlishly rescinding their answers and forbidding me from making use of their specific responses. Apparently word got around that their answers might look bad.

So unfortunately, I can't give details. (Indeed, everything was lost along with my Penn email account.) But the main result was crystal clear: the respondees were overwhelmingly Biblical creationists, and personally rejected not simply Darwinism, but any theory involving common descent with modifications.

65 posted on 01/08/2006 10:05:45 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
CODSWALLOP. The dissenters from evolution are overwhelmingly creationists whose main objection is that evolution contradicts the account of Genesis.

And please, dear professor, where is your data source, beyond your little experiment, for such an irrefutable statement.

You see, only Darwinsists can ever inject subjectivity in to what is supposed to be inferred as fact.

What you did is not conclusive, no matter how much you want it to be. I, along with others still believe in evolution as a theory as well as a notion of a prime mover.

99 posted on 01/08/2006 12:02:37 PM PST by 101st-Eagle
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