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To: Cicero
If the facts don't fit, change the language and send in the ACLU to enforce it.

Another area they have changed the language is in explaining the mechanism. Neo-Darwinists are being told to deemphasize the randomness of evolution and spin natural selection as the main guiding force. Random mutation is not being mentioned as part of the mechanism much anymore.
11 posted on 02/18/2006 1:42:16 PM PST by microgood
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To: microgood
Another area they have changed the language is in explaining the mechanism. Neo-Darwinists are being told to deemphasize the randomness of evolution and spin natural selection as the main guiding force. Random mutation is not being mentioned as part of the mechanism much anymore.

No, your side kept repeating the lie that evolution was random by assiduosly ignoring the nonrandom aspect of selection. When we correct your lie in public, you perceive it as us denying random mutation altogether.

This Harry Truman quote comes to mind: "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

16 posted on 02/18/2006 1:50:24 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.)
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To: microgood

Also the term "natural selection" is now preferred to the commonly used term in earlier times, "survival of the fittest," because "survival of the fittest" points toward the Nazis and the eugenists. There is a vast "social Darwinist" literature that cannot be so easily be separated from "scientific Darwinism" as its adherants pretend.

Kill off the useless eaters, the diabetics, and so forth, to improve the species.


28 posted on 02/18/2006 2:07:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: microgood
Neo-Darwinists are being told to deemphasize the randomness of evolution and spin natural selection as the main guiding force.

Ah, the ignorance of creationists is as vast as space. You have it exactly backwards.

52 posted on 02/18/2006 2:30:47 PM PST by edsheppa
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To: microgood

Yeah, they've gone to great lengths to obfuscate on that one.
They've recently tried chopping free of macro-evolution completely and are seeking to say that all the change takes place internally till something new is ready in the genes to break forth.. kindof like Evolution is cooking something up in the background that it knows can't work yet, so it doesn't unleash it till it's perfected.. evolution with a brain as it were.. The more desperate they get, the quackier the theory becomes. And they don't seem to think the desperation is so transparent.. Morons shifting the game in broad daylight thinking they're hidden from the light..


275 posted on 02/20/2006 6:49:26 AM PST by Havoc (Evolutionists and Democrats: "We aren't getting our message out" (coincidence?))
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