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To: tacticalogic

Biology is supposed to be "objective," and limited to a range of observed events. The scientist is supposed to be a disinterested observer, but what is obsaerved requires explanation to be meaningful and every scientist necessarily "adds to" his observation as he observes. Part and parcel of Darwinism is the culture in which Darwin was nurtured. It is this which prevents his science from being objective. So far as science alone is concern, he was most concerned to reject catastropism, the geological equivalent of revolution , in favor of gradualism-- a idea most congenial to Victorian Englishmen.


44 posted on 03/20/2007 3:29:17 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
Part and parcel of Darwinism is the culture in which Darwin was nurtured. It is this which prevents his science from being objective. So far as science alone is concern, he was most concerned to reject catastropism, the geological equivalent of revolution , in favor of gradualism-- a idea most congenial to Victorian Englishmen.

I take it you're going to disavow any responsibility for your own comments and observations having made any contributions to the absence of objectivity in that parcel.

46 posted on 03/20/2007 3:34:48 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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