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To: Junior
P.S: From 500 scientist to 650 in less than 6 months, and the list is growing!
585 posted on 06/27/2006 1:02:11 PM PDT by celmak
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To: celmak
P.S: From 500 scientist to 650 in less than 6 months, and the list is growing!

Good answer in your post #584.

But the reason that the list of anti-evo scientists is growing is because creationists have created their own unaccredited science degrees.

In the long run this will be counter-productive. These people are not very good scientists. Would you want your Biblical exegesis done by a cell biologist?

587 posted on 06/27/2006 1:14:58 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: celmak

First off, the way the survey question is worded, I would probably have signed it had I not known it was put out by that particular organization. Secondly, how many of those "scientists" are biologists? Anyone else has as much bearing on this issue as you or I.


591 posted on 06/27/2006 1:29:09 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: celmak
"P.S: From 500 scientist to 650 in less than 6 months, and the list is growing!

Have you bothered to read the declaration? It is ambiguous at best and is obviously designed to be interpreted in such a way that only scientists who are well aware of its intended use would hesitate to sign it. Most if not all scientists believe that no scientific field should be taken on faith; questioning is the basis for discovery. At most and as written it is nothing but a list of a 'single mechanism doubters'.

I fail to see how this declaration is a net gain for anti-evolutionists since it does not declare the signers as anti-evolutionists.

P.S.: The list of scientists who are named 'Steve' that support evolution is a whole lot bigger than DI's little list so if you intend on applying DI's list in some misguided appeal to authority it can be easily countered.

596 posted on 06/27/2006 2:56:28 PM PDT by b_sharp (There is always one more mess to clean up.)
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