No, there is a small fundamentalist industry involved in making that claim, but no one in the real sciences now doubts the evolutionary theory. The upsurge in the fundy "research" is merely out of desperation. They were quite happy to sit on their interpretation of the Bible until well beyond the point of absurdity. Now that they have been laughed out of court, suddenly the decided to do a little "investigating" in the physical world. Too late. They come in with an outcome in mind and use selective evidence to get there. They aren't convincing anyone but themselves and fellow true believers.
Evolution was discovered -- it wasn't a religious mandate. Evolution persists because the evidence for it is overwhelming. The ONLY people who disagree do so because they are instructed to do so by their Bible. Pure and simple.
Guess we could end up shouting "is not, is too" about this point till we're green in the face. No point arguing about who the "real scientists" are.
Now that they have been laughed out of court, suddenly the decided to do a little "investigating" in the physical world.
There's a court that's going to decide whether we came from apes or not? Yeah, they did a great job in deciding whether or not the life of the fetus is worthy of protection. But you may or may not agree with me on that.
They come in with an outcome in mind and use selective evidence to get there. They aren't convincing anyone but themselves and fellow true believers.
Scientists with a political agenda or some other motivation would never do that, would they? I'll buy that as soon as they make up their minds on whether or not we're warming the earth with our cars.
Evolution was discovered -- it wasn't a religious mandate.
It wasn't discovered by accident - every scientific theory begins with a hypothesis. The burden of proof is upon the scientist.
Evolution persists because the evidence for it is overwhelming.
Once again, we must agree to disagree. Lots of evidence for evolution that has been disproven remains in biology textbooks, and evidence contrary to evolutionary theory is omitted.
The ONLY people who disagree do so because they are instructed to do so by their Bible. Pure and simple.
Wrongo. And lots of people who agree do so because the press has placed evolutionary theory on the same "common knowledge" pedestal along with other gems like "abortion is a fundamental women's right and everybody agrees except misogynist religious fruitcakes," "J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dressing homo," and "Clinton's impeachment was only about sex."
Honest discussion of certain issues is discouraged, even though they are far from settled. And the sheeple in this country are more worried about who's winning on Monday Night Football than whether they're being cheated by their government, or lied to by the press. They just accept what their newspaper or TV news tells them without reflecton or question. And the press gets away with deception on an Orwellian scale.
I used to try to reconcile evolutionary theory with creation theory by arguing that evolution was God's plan for creating man in his image. I'm no expert or scientist, but the deeper I dug, the more I was convinced that the idea that man is descended from monkeys is bunk.