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To: metmom
And therein lies your problem. You think that the ToE has remained unchallenged for 160 years.

All hypotheses are "challenged." All scientific theories are "challenged." Do you think that when Wallace and Darwin independently recognized the basics tenets of evolution and began publishing their findings that they weren't "challenged?!"

Of COURSE they were! And that's the most ironic part about the lunacy of creationists. This stuff has been "challenged" on many grounds for 160 years and yet it still survives as the single most elegant and persuasive explanation for the diversity of life anyone has ever put forth.

Heck, I have to laugh everytime a new creationist meme is dreamt up - because all that comes of it is further study of that meme and often a paper results. Things that didn't have a rich field of study before creationists latched on to them now do: Evolution of sight, echolocation, vitamin C in primates, avain-reptilian shared ancestry, etc. It's always exciting when creationists find another "gap" for the actual scientists to close.

So in that sense, sure it's "challenged." The theory of relativity has been challenged repeatedly (and updated accordingly). The FACT of evolution has never been credibly challenged. The THEORY of how it works (ie, the mechanisms) has. Innumerable times. Which is a GOOD thing.

YOUR brand of "challenging," from an anti-science "Goddidit" puddle, however, hardly provides anything worth exploring.

It has not and your failure to recognize or acknowledge it IS due to ignorance.

So we're good now?
254 posted on 09/10/2012 7:55:39 AM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: whattajoke

If you’re happy being ignorant, who am I to argue?


255 posted on 09/10/2012 9:07:56 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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