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To: gore3000

Your statement is absolutely incorrect. Science is always concerned about how.

Your refutation does not address the issue. Science is concerned about the how of a thing, or anything else about a thing, when sciences' tools of analytical reasoning have something to chew on.

The evolutionists here certainly seem to think they have the ultimate answer to the why and consider evolution to be it.

No working scientist, that I know of, thinks they have the ultimate answer to anything. I cannot vouch for what every one here thinks, but I rather doubt that you have accurately characterized it

It is interesting that when you are put on the spot, you pull back your claims.

That you mischaractarize, or don't bother to read my claims with your brights on, thereby forcing me to expand my explanations, is hardly "pulling back my claims", oh, rude one.

Evolution cannot even give a consistent explanation of the how because it is not science.

The evolutionary sciences are quite used to being told they aren't science because they won't jump thru any particular hoop some non-scientist critic with an axe to grind holds up. Darwinian evolution is an attempt to explain the overall consistencies in the fossils we observed in the geological column. Opinions about the origins of life do not enter into this question. Darwin specifically made clear that Darwinian evolution has no opinion about the origins of life. What scientific enthusiasts believe or don't believe about this subject has no impact on that.

Evolutionary micro-biology has some tentative opinions reaching back earlier in time than the appearance of fossils; not it largest stretches of the imagination would anyone charactarize them as finished and irrefutable.

90 posted on 09/23/2001 6:42:55 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
Evolution cannot even give a consistent explanation of the how because it is not science. -me-

The evolutionary sciences are quite used to being told they aren't science because they won't jump thru any particular hoop some non-scientist critic with an axe to grind holds up. Darwinian evolution is an attempt to explain the overall consistencies in the fossils we observed in the geological column. Opinions about the origins of life do not enter into this question. Darwin specifically made clear that Darwinian evolution has no opinion about the origins of life. What scientific enthusiasts believe or don't believe about this subject has no impact on that.

This is total hypocrisy. As the article on top shows Darwin's intent in formulating evolution was to ban God from creation, from any role in what happens in nature. Clearly that is postulating ultimate causes. Just about every post by the evolutionists here also shows their hatred of religion. To say that evolution is not a life view is totally ludicrous.

As to the science of evolution, the fossil hunt has not and can never prove evolution for the simple reason that the bones of dead species tell us very little about the species itself. 99% of the biological characteristics of a species are not to be found in the bones and any assumptions, conclusions, or theories derived from such bones are necessarily incomplete, inadequate and mere supposition, not science.

96 posted on 09/24/2001 5:23:41 AM PDT by gore3000
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