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To: furball4paws
No, you should be supporting your own answers and statements like this one: "The answer is simple - none, because no Creationist knows enough about science to spot a fraud."

You made the statement, you should verify it. Or is that how you do science? Publish an article and challenge anyone to prove you wrong? Last I saw, any good scientific paper is referenced.

476 posted on 01/31/2006 7:50:47 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

I cannot supply you with the name of a Creationist that has uncovered scientific fraud for the same reason you cannot - there is none.

Creationists spend a lot of time playing up "scientific fraud" as a way to tarnish Science's good name. If scientific fraud were that rampant then a Creationist would find some and start blowing his horn. That hasn't happened and I doubt it's because they don't look. So there are two obvious reasons why and they are not mutually exclusive: 1)there is very little fraud (I think this is a big part of the case), contrary to what Creationists would like the world to believe, and 2)Creationists are not scientifically literate enough to see scientific fraud (i.e. they don't know enough to be able to spot it). To perpetrate scientific fraud today requires a pretty sneaky person sophisticated enough to get the fraud past editors and peer reviewers. That's a tall order.

So Creationists wait for someone else to uncover the fraud and jump on it and blow it up.

If you have objective information that invalidates my conclusions I will gladly broadcast my error right here where it began. But until then, my conclusion stands.


487 posted on 01/31/2006 8:39:26 PM PST by furball4paws (Awful Offal)
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