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To: stanz
The title says it all. You cannot study biology without accepting evolution as its one unifying tenet.

Why do you have to believe man evolved from ape to study biology? There have been many great accomplishments in Biology by deeply religious people who believed in devine intervention. I really don't see why it is absolutely neccessary to accept every aspect of evolution to study biology. In fact, it is detrimental to science to insist that everyone believes and views the world in the exact same way.

44 posted on 02/02/2004 7:53:24 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Always Right
Why do you have to believe man evolved from ape to study biology?

Um, you don't. Man didn't "evolve from ape." In fact, had you taken the time to click on patrickhenry's link a few posts above, you'd have learned that even your most strident creationist bedfellows have implored folks like you to stop using this inane "argument."

By the way... we're still waiting for your list of " Some of the greatest biologist [sic] and scientist[sic][who] don't believe in evolution." You have two tacts you can take... a list of pre-Darwin scientists like Newton or current Patriot University grads.
48 posted on 02/02/2004 8:04:36 AM PST by whattajoke (Neutiquam erro.)
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To: Always Right
The problem is that both creationist and evolutionist accept micro evolution because it is provable.The evolutionist then make the faith leap to macro evolution which has not been proven by history or experiment.I accept evolution as a editing process but it does not involve creation.
55 posted on 02/02/2004 8:11:29 AM PST by Blessed
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To: Always Right
There's no question that life evolved on this planet. This does not only involve human evolution; that's just one facet of it. Biology concerns itself with cell differentiation and speciation - - -two obvious components of any first-year bio lab course. Evolution is at the basis of these phenomena. Not studying evolution in a biological context is tantamount to taking organic chemistry without any calculus foundation.
120 posted on 02/02/2004 10:26:00 AM PST by stanz
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