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To: xcamel; calex59

>>>[Dinosaur gives Creationists the finger]

Why not. Everybody else rightly does.

>>>I believe in science being objective. Evolutionary scientist are a lot like global warming scientist, if they don’t keep finding stuff to suppor there theories they don’t get the grants, therefore there is lots of lying and faking of fossils going on

One could as easily say that if preachers don’t keep scaring parishioners they don’t get the collection plate full. Oral Roberts shaking down the faithful to pay up “or God will take him home”. Jim Bakker with his mansions, water slide, and floozies. Enough splinters of the “true cross” floating around to build a housing development. Lots of faking there too amongst the nuggets of truth. And that doesn’t even touch on obsolete or New Age religions that current believers think were false from the get-go.

If you think advanced paleontology can be done without funding, fine. But expeditions and analysis are expensive and have to be paid for somehow. “Grants” isn’t the bogeyman word that someone on *EVERY* FR science thread seems to think it is. It comes to be used as no more then an excuse for yahoos to stick their fingers in their ears.

The thing about modern science is somebody always comes along to double-check the results. If fraud or mistake is involved, it gets found much more reliably then with uncheckable philosophical mumbo-jumbo.

>>> I can’t be moved from my argument

Unsurprisingly.


46 posted on 06/17/2009 11:04:57 PM PDT by tlb
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To: calex59; tlb

There are natural cures for being unable to have a movement...


47 posted on 06/18/2009 3:26:07 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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