Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
See post #254.
So it's your contention that evolution should be rejected because it is not widely accepted by scientists?
and many of the famous scientists of past were strong believers in a creator. Sir Issac Newton was a famous one.
He was a famous Arianist heretic, too. How does your church feel about the Nicene Creed?
But anyway, Newton's opinion about evolution is as relevant as Aristotle's opinion about Newtonian mechanics.
The first statement is oversimplistic to the point of being erroneous, the answer to the second is "not necessarily", the third is flat out ludicrous and not at all any part of the Theory of Evolution.
And Dawkins has a lot of misconceptions about how ToE is applies to Theology. He is mistaken in his assertion that ToE is evidence for "no God." And that still has no effect on the scientific theory.
There is overwhelming evidence that shows a path from modern man to early Hominids and before that from proto-human animals. There is even MORE overwhelming evidence on speciation.
That is the summary. You need to do the research to refute it. All of the articles and links point to recognized and respected and peer-reviewed science journals.
BTW, what has blind adherence to evolution got to do with conservatism?
Like "blind adherence" to physics, astronomy, chemistry, and all those other evil satanic practices. Yes, you are right. The Earth is flat and the Universe is 6,000 years old. And that EVIL telescope must be removed so no comets ever hit Springfield again.
Your social allies seem to be the leftist mainstream media, and you legal ally [sic] seems to be the ACLU.
There is no "social" issue here. If you think that kids should be taught that Angels keep airplanes aloft (which I assume to be your stance) then I guess you can get that listed as science, once it passes scientific muster.
I just find it saddening and maddening that so-called "conservatives" want our children to be ignorant and years behind their peers in advanced countries like Turkey.
Truly pathetic!
Get some sleep.
I guess you never saw Michael Moore up close.
;)
Intelligent design is a dodge developed after the Supreme Court bombed creation "science" out of the classrooms in the late 1980s.
The clever folks at the Discovery Institute said, "Aha! Well change things around a bit and see if we can fool people." So they came up with a strategy.
They called this The Wedge Strategy. But whoops!
Somehow it got leaked and posted on the internet, and that gave the whole ballgame away.
Its not about science. It is about overriding science with a particular narrow religious belief.
My mom married a geologist who was in minerals exploration - uranium. I had to spend 4 weeks is a place called Uravan in Colorado, at a uranium/vanadium mine. I heard they closed it down, and have blocked off the entire area because of contamination. It is rare to meet anyone in uranium exploration now days.
See post #254.
Exactly. So evolution's not producing anything except worry.
And even if Corkoman was right, which I seriously doubt, that the CDC anticipates specific mutations and proactively prepares for them. Knowledge of mutations is not the same as evolution. We believe we've seen strains of the flu leap from animals to man (i.e. Swine Flu). But that's not evolution either. It might be micro evolution but it's not anything on the scale of Darwinian macro evolution.
And even should the bird flu make the leap, it's still flu, it may mutate, but it hasn't evolved into anything other than the flu.
Has anyone read "The Biology Of Belief" by Bruce Lipton?
There are a lot of myths that could use clearing up, all right. "Survival of the fittest" is one. Sounds like this fella is taking them on. He seems to have issues with the social philosophy of "Darwinism", something which I see no empirical evidence to support. We certainly agree on that.
Does he reject the Theory of Evolution in toto, or just the humanist social movements that attached themselves to it like barnacles?
See post #254.
(I'm catching up as fast as I can!)
Yeah, you would think, the enviros would simply say that's natural let it be. But of course since everything is man's fault and in particular Bush's fault, they'll never view it that way.
Actually, Scientists tell us there have been hundreds of extinctions in our lifetime. And something on the order of 1/3 of all bird species have gone extinct in the last 2000 years. So where are the new species, to keep up? We discover new species in extreme environments that have probably existed for ages. But I know of only two that proposed as "recent" new species. And they are just mosquitos and moths that have become isolated so long that they have lost the ability or will to mate with others of their species.
It seems like at current rates, we would see a lot of extinct species in the fossil record, which we do. But extinction without many new species is consistent with a cursed earth instead of evolution providing ever more diversity.
Remember to tag your sarcasm posts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
God is sitting up there laughing.
Sarcasm tags are for wusses.
Ridiculous. Evolution has been useful in giving mankind a reason to ignore his nobility, and to blame chemistry and chance for his behaviour. ;-)
I refuse to be a member of the trade association called the AMA. Many physicians are not members. For many reasons. Abortion, gun control etc. They are just another trade union they do not have any more truth than me.
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