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Scientific Illiteracy and the Partisan Takeover of Biology
National Center for Science Education ^
| 18 April 2006
| Staff
Posted on 04/19/2006 3:57:51 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Gumlegs; grey_whiskers
Before I was seriously into conservatism and politics, I was reading everything related to scientific skepticism. I remember the worst vitriol among the skeptics was reserved for Art Bell, and not for any political reasons.
To: Matchett-PI
I for one appreciate your posts and links.
To: Right Wing Professor
Thanks, Fess. Everytime I learn something, I feel renewed and refreshed. It's like the intellectual equivalent of a nice hot shower.
To: metmom
What makes you think that's where I was going?
764
posted on
04/22/2006 3:02:34 PM PDT
by
js1138
(somewhere, some time ago, something happened, but whatever it was that happened wasn't evolution)
To: stands2reason
765
posted on
04/22/2006 3:03:53 PM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
To: PatrickHenry
Dear Sir Patric,
Evolution is one of the biggest political movements of the century. Just ask those scientists looking for government funding over the past 40 decades.
To: MissAmericanPie
Dear Miss Pie:I am pleased to inform you that evolution is a scientific theory not and a political movement. You may wish have correctly evaluated your sources of information.
Evolution is too broad a concept and too loosely defined to be a legitimate scientific theory.
767
posted on
04/22/2006 3:22:36 PM PDT
by
TaxRelief
(Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
To: Right Wing Professor; ToryHeartland
I prefer the term "shirt-lifter"...
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Why is one science and the other not? Which theory has been denied government funding for the past 40 decades? Which perfumed prince theory has been promoted and funded?
To: MissAmericanPie
"Why is one science and the other not?"
Evolution makes testable claims. ID doesn't.
"Which theory has been denied government funding for the past 40 decades?"
ID isn't a scientific theory. Just because someone makes a philosophical/theological claim (ID) doesn't mean that the government has to fund it. By that reasoning, Scientology should also be funded by the government.
"Which perfumed prince theory has been promoted and funded?"
None that I know of.
How about that wacky claim about people and corn? Any cites for the 3% similarity you said was a fact?
770
posted on
04/22/2006 3:34:35 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
To: MissAmericanPie
Just ask those scientists looking for government funding over the past 40 decades. 40 decades?!
To: MissAmericanPie
Evolution is one of the biggest political movements of the century. Just ask those scientists looking for government funding over the past 40 decades.Ah, I see you are still here with your tinfoil-hat comments. Goverment funding of biological research for the last 400 years? Wow! As you are still here perhaps you can produce a source for that 3% difference between ears of corn and people statistic. Or are you going to admit that you've been caught with your hand in the cookie jar?
772
posted on
04/22/2006 3:49:42 PM PDT
by
Thatcherite
(Miraculous explanations are just spasmodic omphalism)
To: Virginia-American
"40 decades?!"
Can't believe I missed that one.
773
posted on
04/22/2006 3:53:28 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
To: MissAmericanPie
Just ask those scientists looking for government funding over the past 40 decades.
Did Noah look for government funding on what to bring onto the ark?
774
posted on
04/22/2006 3:57:36 PM PDT
by
ml1954
To: MissAmericanPie
Evolution is one of the biggest political movements of the century. Dear Miss Pie:
I know what the democrats are all about -- socialism, surrender, and sodomy. And I know what the republicans are all about -- defense, free enterprise, lower taxes, etc. But I can't remember hearing an evolution candidate tell what his political program might be. Can you help us out here?
775
posted on
04/22/2006 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: ml1954; MissAmericanPie; Thatcherite; PatrickHenry; Right Wing Professor
Let's face it, chaps, MissAmericanPie
cannot be real; "she" is surely a prank.
OK, good one MissAmericanPie, I fell for it, and took you at face value for quite a few posts. I thought you were sincere but ill-educated. But the "40 decades" stretched that personna beyond credibility, you should have quit while still ahead.
All the same, hats off to you: I thought I was pretty good at spotting pranksters, but I guess I'm losing my touch.
In the immortal words of Don McLean: bye bye!
To: TaxRelief
"Evolution is too broad a concept and too loosely defined to be a legitimate scientific theory."
How is it too broad?
777
posted on
04/22/2006 4:18:01 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Regarding man vs corn do your own homework and study nucleotides. In a 100,000 strand one nucletide difference makes a huge difference. Much less a 1% difference. A one percent difference makes a huge gap between species.
Here is a fun site that talks about how scientists at Howard Hughes University are studying the possibility that life started in clay. Seems to me they are finally beginning to look in the right place.You know, "the dust from the earth", in Genesis.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=655&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Just as astrophysics and evolution are slowly beginning to be studied together in some instances, so should ID and evolution and physics. As time passes I suspect at least two of the sciences to merge. Depends on whether ID is left out or not, if it's three. I wonder how much time could be saved using Genesis as the template?
I like science and think the study of evolution is necessary, as well as the study of physics, all the sciences, especially the science of the Bible.
To: ToryHeartland
Let's face it, chaps, MissAmericanPie cannot be real; "she" is surely a prank.I have faith in Miss Pie. I believe her to be sincere.
779
posted on
04/22/2006 4:23:29 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: stands2reason
To be honest, I don't remember that ... I could just have missed it ... but the anger directed (justly, imho), at psychic surgeons was quite impressive.
780
posted on
04/22/2006 4:23:51 PM PDT
by
Gumlegs
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