Posted on 02/22/2005 7:34:15 AM PST by PatrickHenry
When it's your job to serve as the president's in-house expert on science and technology, being constantly in the media spotlight isn't necessarily a mark of distinction. But for President Bush's stoically inclined science adviser John Marburger, immense controversy followed his blanket dismissal last year of allegations (now endorsed by 48 Nobel laureates) that the administration has systematically abused science. So it was more than a little refreshing last Wednesday to hear Marburger take a strong stance against science politicization and abuse on one issue where it really matters: evolution.
Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Science Writers, Marburger fielded an audience question about "Intelligent Design" (ID), the latest supposedly scientific alternative to Charles Darwin's theory of descent with modification. The White House's chief scientist stated point blank, "Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory." And that's not all -- as if to ram the point home, Marburger soon continued, "I don't regard Intelligent Design as a scientific topi."
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I'm not sure the whole article can be copied here, so please go to the link to read it all:
Chris Mooney, "Intelligent Denials", The American Prospect Online, Feb 22, 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
My little tongue in check sentence implied fooling with the sheep. But are you really serious?
Humans spread out from Africa, most likely, and the founder population had a different set of gene frequencies that when separated by time and geography resulted in genetic drift to make the different characteristics of people you see today. In the case of skin color it was not genetic drift, but adaptation to sunlight and the vitamin D equation that caused northern people to be light skinned.
"But are you really serious? "
Apparently not, as I took your post to be some Creationist nonsense. My bad!!
They don't want to "buy a ticket," even though silly statements like this ("junkyard") have been refuted by you and others hundreds of times on FR, they are content to keep making the same ignorant all-purpose statements copied from some creationist tract; and have no intention of sullying their brains by reading the basic science articles you linked to.
"A man may well bryng a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will."
Then the bus will leave them behind.
Of course, some want to compensate for their lack of tickets by making everybody miss the bus.
Not sure what that has to do with my post.
But is it really creationism that's the rankling factor here, or Christianity?
I'd argue that it's Christianity, and the Democrats have been largely successful at portraying the (R)'s as, well, Christian. But since most of America considers itself Christian, it's to the GOP's benefit.
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