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To: Tim Long

This is going to upset the darwin fundamentalists.


138 posted on 06/22/2006 5:47:12 PM PDT by Mogollon
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To: Mogollon
This is going to upset the darwin fundamentalists.

In case you hadn't noticed, although we "darwin fundamentalists" indeed don't agree with the political agenda behind the statement -- attempts to include antievolutionary ideas in science curricula on the basis of intellectual affirmative action rather than demonstrated merit in the professional marketplace of scientific ideas, and ultimately to use such as a "wedge issue" to wage explicitly religious culture war in science classes -- we DON'T actually disagree very much with the literal words of the statement.

Few... Correction... Almost certainly NO evolutionists (even "darwin fundamentalists") hold that natural selection plus random mutation is the sole mechanism driving evolution; and we all believe that evolution should be treated as any other important scientific theory, i.e. that it's substance should and does remain vulnerable to the acid skepticism of science.

Sorry to disappoint you.

149 posted on 06/22/2006 6:25:28 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Mogollon
This is going to upset the darwin fundamentalists.

Not really. This has been posted probably more than once per month for ages. Thoroughly discounted. Some of the signatories have acutally spoken out as being misrepresented.

168 posted on 06/22/2006 7:08:02 PM PDT by OmahaFields
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