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Change Some May Not Want You To Believe In

The attitude of the young is quite encouraging. "0% agreed among those in the 18-24 year-old age bracket"!

1 posted on 02/11/2009 12:15:32 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Executive Summary: WAAAA WAAAA I’M A VICTIM WAAAA WAAAA UNFAIR WAAAA WAAAA


2 posted on 02/11/2009 12:17:51 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: neverdem

read later


3 posted on 02/11/2009 12:21:26 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: neverdem
I am surprised that an article titled “Scientific McCarthyism” makes no references to global warming.
4 posted on 02/11/2009 12:30:59 PM PST by Between the Lines (Liberals wanting a massive bailout leaves Conservatives wanting to bail out en masse)
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To: neverdem

There appears to be some evolutionary structure, particularly in genes, that withstands scientific scrutiny.

However, it appears also that alot of it doesn’t fit anything at all.

Thus to struggle on with God....


5 posted on 02/11/2009 12:50:37 PM PST by onedoug
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To: neverdem

Are medical schools being McCarthyist by not wanting to consider supernatural alternates to disease, such as demonic possession (which lots of people believe)? No - they rightfully stick to germ theory, which is valid, testable, and has held up to over a century of challenge. If a frustrated witch doctor wanted demonic possession to be on the medical school curricula, he’d accuse the “establishment” of being McCarthyist towards him too.


6 posted on 02/11/2009 1:13:26 PM PST by PC99
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To: neverdem
What are they afraid of?

Science being destroyed by religious fervor.

Thus science admits that nature can offer no explanation for the origin of either.

And that is outside of evolution, a completely different question being studied by astrophysicists.

the vast majority of randomly occurring mutations are harmful

Vast majority. Give me hundreds of billions of mutations and there is much room for non-harmful mutations.

As Michael Behé pointed out Darwin's Black Box

And as has been pointed out, Behe is wrong. Let it go, the horse died a long time ago.

Significantly, not even Darwin believed his theory could explain the origin of life. That's why his seminal work is called Origin of Species rather than Origin of Life.

The brings up this true statement, yet brought up the "origin of the universe" question above against evolution. It seems he is using the standard strawman tactic, hoping readers have a VERY short memory.

7 posted on 02/11/2009 1:19:09 PM PST by antiRepublicrat ("I am a firm believer that there are not two sides to every issue..." -- Arianna Huffington)
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To: neverdem
I just learned something. February 12th is the 100th birthday of Charles Darwin -- also of Abraham Lincoln.

Any connection?

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9 posted on 02/11/2009 1:36:01 PM PST by JCG
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To: neverdem
"This raises the question: What are they afraid of?"


10 posted on 02/11/2009 1:39:08 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: neverdem

btt


16 posted on 02/11/2009 2:16:09 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: neverdem
Evolutionary theory is contravened by the pre-Cambrian explosion, in which untold numbers of complex life forms appear suddenly and fully formed in the fossil record, with nary a trace of intermediate, transitional forms.

Misrepresentation of the Cambrian explosion is a cornerstone of the worst of some ID proponents. Fish appeared in the late Cambrian - well after the initial 'explosion'. Entire cladistical families - amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds - did not appear until after the Cambrian. Land was not inhabited at the end of the Cambrian. It's like implying there wasn't a house next door yesterday and a complete house is there today - when all that is present is the foundation and some framing.

17 posted on 02/11/2009 2:28:16 PM PST by dirtboy
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