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To: jla
I'll take your failure to reply as an admission of culpability.

I'll give you your choice: you can take it as an indication that I am working 7-day weeks with very long hours (which I am) and don't have enough time for FReeping, or an indication that I missed your post at first and then didn't think it worth a response when I finally did read it.

But I'll throw you a bone: someone on this thread pointed to a list of 30 scientists who dissent from evolution as proof that the theory is in trouble. Against that I offer a list of 755 scientists named Steve who signed their names to a very strong statement of acceptance of evolution: "...there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence."

Taking into account the prevalence of the name "Steve" in the population as a whole, this is equivalent to a list of over 75000 scientists. That's better than 2000 times larger than the list of 30 evolution dissenters we've been offered.

And before you say that that's not good enough, try demonstrating that degree of unanimity in favor of any position of any kind that you agree with.

294 posted on 08/19/2006 12:37:56 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist

Better yet, 99.86% of scientists in the related earth science and life science fields accept evolution:

""By one count there are some 700 scientists with respectable academic credentials (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) who give credence to creation-science..."
-- Newsweek , 6/29/87, Page 23"

Or, the November '97 Gallup survey on not just scientists in the relevant fields, but scientists in the U.S. in general:

"Creationist View

God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years." 5%

"Theistic evolution

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including man's creation." 40%

"Naturalistic evolution

Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process." 55%

That means that 95% of U.S. scientists accept evolution.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm


295 posted on 08/19/2006 12:50:00 PM PDT by Dante Alighieri
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