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Biology Prof: Evolution Isn’t Theory, it’s Fact
Human Events ^ | August 17 | Christopher Flickinger

Posted on 08/17/2005 7:44:13 AM PDT by PApatriot1

Did you hear the news? Evolution is no longer a theory. It’s a fact! I know, I can’t believe it either. Wait, you haven’t heard about this breakthrough discovery? Well, you might want to check with Professor Colin Purrington, an evolutionary biologist who teaches at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Professor Purrington says, “Evolution is a ‘theory’ like gravity is a ‘theory.’”

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KEYWORDS: anothercrevothread; college; enoughalready; evolution; god; makeitstop; notagain; professor; science
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To: hawkaw

"The professor is correct. There are facts that can be tested and observations made to confirm the hypothesis."

lol - and what would those be?


21 posted on 08/17/2005 8:01:07 AM PDT by bluetone006 (Peace - or I guess war if given no other option)
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To: PApatriot1

Hm. Flickinger's article isn't really all that good.


22 posted on 08/17/2005 8:01:36 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: narby
So we can go about changing your DNA all day long and you'll still be you?

Most likely I'll still be human. But if you can change my DNA and turn me into a newt, I'd be impressed.

23 posted on 08/17/2005 8:03:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: bluetone006
has just crushed random chance (evolution) as a viable theory. The hard science doesn't support it and the math doesn't support it.

Get a grip. The smoking gun proof that humans share a common ancestor with primates is contained in your very own DNA. There were rare pre-historic viral infections in our common ancestor that have left remnants in the DNA of primates and humans. The only possible explanation is a common ancestor.

As far "math doesn't support it", those efforts by creationists are based on wild assumptions that are invalid.

24 posted on 08/17/2005 8:04:58 AM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: theFIRMbss
Is that a sea skank that has evolved and now can walk on land??
26 posted on 08/17/2005 8:07:24 AM PDT by timdel33
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To: TonyRo76
Ah yes, Inherit the Wind. One of the creepiest pieces of leftwing, Christianophobe propaganda ever churned out by Hollywood.

Because Christians handed them the ammunition to do it. And you IDiots are doing it again. Don't you ever learn?

27 posted on 08/17/2005 8:07:52 AM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: bluetone006
Just on this site alone this is probably a start.

http://www.freerepublic.com/~patrickhenry/#List-O-Links

Here is another that can help some except those who wrongly think YEC or ID is science.

http://www.freerepublic.com/~ichneumon/

28 posted on 08/17/2005 8:07:53 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: PApatriot1
Bottom line – evolution is not fact. It’s theory! And, contrary to Prof. Purrington’s remarks, the theory of intelligent design deserves just as much attention as evolution in the classroom.

Articles like this make me want to pull my hair out, and I'm not even a scientist. First of all, there's no such thing as the "theory" of intelligent design. To say there is suggests a complete lack of knowledge concerning scientific terms.

A scientific theory is a way of describing a process by examining and testing related events. It becomes a theory only when it gains widespread acceptance.

By its definition, a theory cannot become fact, but it's certainly more than conjecture.

29 posted on 08/17/2005 8:11:46 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: narby
"It's done all the time with fast reproducing critters. It's possible with larger creatures too, as long as you've got a few thousand years to wait."

Name a single study that has moved beyond variations in size, coloration or the like. Yes, with selective breeding, you can "create" (through the application of an external intelligence) difference "styles" of dogs. However, they are still dogs. All studies using fruit flies and the like have been even less successful. Not a single study eschewing specific external manipulation has seen a single positive mutation that was genetically transferred. If you had any concept of the complexity of the software that is DNA you wouldn't have made the statement you did.

Random chance made good sense in 1890. At this point it time it is a joke.
30 posted on 08/17/2005 8:11:57 AM PDT by bluetone006 (Peace - or I guess war if given no other option)
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To: Brilliant

Do you believe the Bible as fact?


31 posted on 08/17/2005 8:12:17 AM PDT by conserv13
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To: TonyRo76

It's one of my favorite movies. And I'm not sure how leftist it really is. At the end, Hornbeck, the smarmy journalist, is revealed to be a lonely and petty figure because he doesn't believe in anything. Brady got lost "looking for God too high up and too far away"--he forgot the everyday miracles, and the greatest gift of all from God--free will and the ability to think for oneself. And Drummond was "just as religious as [Brady] was"; the difference being that he could reconcile Darwin and the Bible.

It was an anti-fundamentalist film, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was anti-Christian.


33 posted on 08/17/2005 8:12:47 AM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Performing at a level just a hair above incompetence.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

"Genetic change within a population is not the same as one species becoming a different species."

From a science textbook.

"In fact, evolution can be precisely defined as any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from one generation to the next."
- Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes, Biology, 5th ed. 1989 Worth Publishers, p.974

This is a fact. The theory of evolution is what covers how this happens and how it can create new species to explain the huge variations of life that exist.


34 posted on 08/17/2005 8:12:52 AM PDT by Tequila25
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To: PApatriot1
Evolution is a ‘theory’ like gravity is a ‘theory

The above is a common psalm among religious evolutionites. Another example how they don't understand science at all, in this case basic physics.

35 posted on 08/17/2005 8:14:22 AM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: bluetone006
If you had any concept of the complexity of the software that is DNA you wouldn't have made the statement you did.

I do have a concept. And evolution still occurs. Deal with it.

36 posted on 08/17/2005 8:14:51 AM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: PApatriot1
Gosh, this is moronic. So sub-atomic particles are in the Bible, eh?

Too bad. Human Events used to be a reputable conservative magazine.

37 posted on 08/17/2005 8:15:18 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (ID: the 'scientific hypothesis' that somebody did something to some gene or other sometime somehow.)
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To: bluetone006

"Not a single study eschewing specific external manipulation has seen a single positive mutation that was genetically transferred."

Doesn't need to be shown. All that needs to be shown is that the new population can no longer breed with the original. Bingo, new species.

Unless you have a better definition of what a species is.


38 posted on 08/17/2005 8:15:30 AM PDT by Tequila25
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To: theFIRMbss

Were those evolved or created?


39 posted on 08/17/2005 8:17:07 AM PDT by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: 70times7

I'll have to do a lab study..


40 posted on 08/17/2005 8:17:47 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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