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To: PatrickHenry

" Darwin's theory of evolution (and inevitably all other science as well). "


Now I doubt you are going to see Creationists calling for the banning of mathematics,physics,or Geology from the classrooms just because Evolution draws upon these for supportive tools and data. I don't think science itself would be threatened if Evolution itself suddenly were debunked....the whole of science would not suddenly be threatened if evolution suddenly disappeared from man's consciousness. Evolution is not a foundational pillar of science but it depends on other foundational pillars in science for its very survival as theoretical thought!


147 posted on 06/13/2005 1:13:24 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
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To: mdmathis6
I don't think science itself would be threatened if Evolution itself suddenly were debunked.

If evolution were debunked, it would be by a scientific theory [ What's a Scientific Theory?] that: (a) explains the evidence better than evolution does; (b) explains additional phenomena that evolution can't explain; and (c) is consistent with all other branches of science. So far, because all the evidence yet discovered fits into and supports the theory of evolution, there's nothing on the horizon that can do the job. But scientists are open-minded.

You may find this useful: How to argue against a scientific theory.

148 posted on 06/13/2005 1:43:59 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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