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To: Ichneumon
All well and good, but Darwinism, at least, has been empirically proven, right?

Wrong. Sure, there's evidence that evolution takes place within a species—but the fossil record has not yielded evidence of one species becoming another, as Darwin confidently predicted. This lack of evidence has not gone unnoticed by sociologist Rodney Stark. Stark calls himself neither an evolutionist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design; instead, he says, he is merely a scholar pursuing the evidence where it leads. In For the Glory of God (Princeton University Press, 2003), Stark offers startling evidence that Darwinists have covered up mounting flaws in their theory. He concludes that the battle over evolution is hardly a case of "heroic" scientists fighting off the persecution of religious fanatics. Instead, from the start, evolution "has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator—an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work."

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124 posted on 04/14/2005 1:16:43 AM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Echo Talon
. Sure, there's evidence that evolution takes place within a species—but the fossil record has not yielded evidence of one species becoming another, as Darwin confidently predicted. This lack of evidence has not gone unnoticed by sociologist Rodney Stark. Stark calls himself neither an evolutionist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design; instead, he says, he is merely a scholar pursuing the evidence where it leads. In For the Glory of God (Princeton University Press, 2003), Stark offers startling evidence that Darwinists have covered up mounting flaws in their theory. He concludes that the battle over evolution is hardly a case of "heroic" scientists fighting off the persecution of religious fanatics. Instead, from the start, evolution "has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator—an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work."

That's a mighty paranoid conspiracy theory you've got there. But it's just a fantasy, and it's false. I'm sure it brings you some comfort though.

Meanwhile, biologists continue to do actual science which overwhelmingly supports evolution, as they have for almost 150 years now. Deal with it.

Try reading more *science* sources and fewer creationist ones, if you want something approaching a realistic view of what evolutionary biology is all about. Trying to "learn" about evolution from creationist sources is almsot exactly like trying to "learn" about conservatism from Michael Moore movies, and for exactly the same reasons.

133 posted on 04/14/2005 1:37:51 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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