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To: attiladhun2
Name me a single important scientific discovery with evolution as its basis. You can't.

Most certainly, creation "science" is a desolate field, producing nothing but comic books, fraudulent tapes, and websites that are pits of ignorance.

Consider, for example, the biotech industry, which is unquestionably involved with the science of biology:

The survey, promoted by the Commerce Department as the first comprehensive survey of the U.S. biotech industry, found 1.1 million total employees in the 1,031 responding companies, with 130,000 employees engaged in biotech activities. Those firms reported $50.4 billion in net sales related to biotech in 2001, with an operating income of $9.4 billion.
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The survey also found that biotech-related research and development spending in 2001 amounted to $16.4 billion, about 10 percent of all U.S. industry R&D that year. Biotech R&D was a heavy expense for firms responding -- it accounted for more than 33 percent of the respondents' biotech budgets ...
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More than 66,000 of the firms' 130,000 biotech employees had technical-related jobs, with 55 percent of those technical jobs belonging to scientists.
Source: Survey: U.S. Biotech Industry Poised for Growth. (From 13 November 2003)
I wonder if any of those scientists are "creation scientists"?
1,308 posted on 12/30/2004 10:47:24 AM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry
What does any of this have to do with evolution? The pseudoscience of Marxism produced the Soviet Union and Communist China. A number of brilliant thinkers came out of those societies, so what! That does not prove the pseudoscience of Marxism is true any more than a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry proves that the pseudoscience of Darwinism is true.
I guess all the screwball scifi and horror flicks based on some evolutionary premise I used see at the Sat. matinee when I was a kid are equally valid arguments against evolution? You are using at least two logical fallacies in your presentation--that of ad hominem and selective siding. Scientists who believed in creation have given humankind calculus, the laws of heredity, and germ theory. Thomas Edison was also a creationist, I believe.
1,415 posted on 01/08/2005 10:37:50 AM PST by attiladhun2
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