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To: liberallarry
You can throw out "evolution" today and science would be none the worse for it.

If you doubt this, consider the fact that all of the useful and practical knowledge derived from the theory [anti-microbial resistance, pesticide resistance etc] can be summarized as micro-evolution.

Micro evolution can be [and is] assimilated by either creationism or ID, so if all of the science establishment were to suddenly become born again Christians and begin to promote a young-earth world view, the sky would not fall, as medicine, biology, genetics etc., would proceed on as nothing ever happened.

Brian.

40 posted on 07/11/2002 7:37:35 PM PDT by bzrd
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To: bzrd
You can throw out "evolution" today and science would be none the worse for it.

I can't throw out anything because I'm not a scientist...and I never forget that. I have only a rough understanding of most scientific theories and the evidence that supports them. When I pick up the leading journals and try to follow the evidence and arguments supporting or disputing competing theories I can't do it. I'm reduced to popularizations.

That being said I have no interest in attempts to present the Bible as science. Seems to me that what we're seeing now with evolution is pretty much a reply of what happened to the heliocentric theory three or four hundred years ago. Also the whole approach is wrong. Creationists are clearly motivated by a desire to prove the truth of the Bible rather than a desire to find a theory which best fits the facts.

Just my two cents as an ordinary citizen.

41 posted on 07/11/2002 8:23:06 PM PDT by liberallarry
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