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Posted on 02/15/2006 10:25:06 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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Yeah, I too would support teaching scientific evidence against evolution if such evidence existed. The problem is, it doesn't exist. All the so-called "evidence" against evolution is nothing but a bunch of logical fallacies, misrepresentations, and outright lies concocted by people who can't accept evolution for religious reasons.
"All the so-called "evidence" against evolution is nothing but a bunch of logical fallacies"
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The fossil record does not support Darwinism....i.e. gradualism as Darwin proposed. That is why Steven J. Gould developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium....to explain the sudden appearnces of species in the fossil record.
The fossil record shows the flaws in Darwinism and Gould tried to compensate for it. Its not a logical fallacy, its just....science.
So how is Gould's theory a logical fallacy?
Second of all, it doesn't conflict with Darwinism. Darwin himself hypothesized that evolution might not proceed at a constant rate, but might proceed at a faster rate at some times, and proceed at a slow rate at others. Eldridge and Gould merely showed that the fossil record confirms this hypothesis.
To answer your question, punctuated equilibrium is not a logical fallacy. Using it to argue against evolution is.
Of course the fossil record confirms the hypothesis, because the hypothesis is based upon the fossil record.
Or would you deny that Darwin formulated these opinions absent knowledge of the current state of the static record?
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Dover CARES swept the race for school board Tuesday defeating board members who supported the curriculum change being challenged in federal court.
Pro-ID school board members in Dover, PA swept from office
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Presidential politics: Dover is in York County, which supported George W. Bush in the last two presidential elections. According to unofficial vote totals for 2004, Bush received 114,621 votes and John Kerry received 63,628 votes. [my note: that's about 64% for Bush!]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/politicalInfo.php?locIndex=275620
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Here are three GOP office holders who are distancing themselves from ID:
Santorum: Don't put intelligent design in classroom
Jeb Bush on science standards and teaching ID:
He wants those standards to become more rigorous -- and raising the standards should take priority over discussing whether intelligent design has a place in the public schools' curriculum, he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547174/posts
And here is Governor Taft backing away from ID:
Second of all, it doesn't conflict with Darwinism. Darwin himself hypothesized that evolution might not proceed at a constant rate, but might proceed at a faster rate at some times, and proceed at a slow rate at others. Eldridge and Gould merely showed that the fossil record confirms this hypothesis.
Punctuated equilibrium is a creation by evolutionists because there is/was no fossil record supporting evolution. It is intellectually dishonest to then turn around and claim that punctuated equilibrium is supported by the fossil record.
The lack of a record is no record; at all!
There are two places to look for verification of Darwin's theory: the fossil record and breeding experiments with animals. If Darwin's theory is correct, the fossil record should show innumerable slight gradations between earlier species and later ones. Darwin was aware, however, that the fossil record of his day showed nothing of the sort. There were enormous discontinuities between major animal and plant groups. He accordingly entitled his chapter on the subject, "On the Imperfection of the Geological Record." He hoped that future digging would fill in the gaps, which he admitted to be "the gravest objection to my theory." Enormous quantities of fossils have been dug up since, and, if anything, they make more glaring the gaps which troubled Darwin. Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard biologist, calls this lack of gradual change in the fossil record the "trade secret" of modem paleontology.
The fossil record shows exactly what it showed in Darwin's day-that species appear suddenly in a fully developed state and change little or not at all before disappearing (99 out of 100 species are extinct). About 550 million years ago at the beginning of the Cambrian era there was an explosion of complex life forms--mollusks, jellyfish, trilobites--for which not a single ancestral form can be found in earlier rocks. A man from Mars looking at the subsequent fossil record would say that species are replaced by other species, rather than evolve into them. Paleontologist Stephen Stanley writes that "the fossil record does not convincingly demonstrate a single transition from one species to another."
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Revelation 4:11Intelligent Design
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Clearly, the people are insane. < /s>
In 2006 in Ohio:
B = 68.8%
Good for us! I knew we Ohioans were a smart bunch. :)
Let's hear it for ACADEMIC FREEDOM against leftist control of our schools.
Good morning, Wolf!
Freepmail later, much later.
78.6% of Republicans agreed, 58.6% of Democrats agreed, and 67% of Independents agreed.
70% of men agreed, and 67.8% of women.
51% had some high school, 69% graduated high school, 67.8% had some college, 70% had college degrees.
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Impossible. Everyone knows that anyone who disputes the theory of evolution looks like this:
I would strongly recommend you consult PatrickHenry's List-O-Links.
This will provide you with sufficient background so that you won't repeat all of the same old creationist arguments that have been shown to be inaccurate long ago.
Academic Freedom and Critical Thinking apparently are no longer legal in Ohio
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