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To: RobbyS
Scientists are as likely to abuse their positions as anyone else. They are just as greedy for fame and fortune as the average rock star. More to the point, they are sometime guilty of priestcraft, which is to claim magical powers.

One more time. Will you hold that hold to that opinion in the face of assertions that creationsists are not "anti-science"?

More relevant to the purpose of this forum, will you advocate that position as the correct political stance for passing legislation and forming public policy with regard to public support of science and the scientific community?

63 posted on 03/20/2007 4:01:32 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Creationists are not anti-science unless science demands that they accept that the scientific method is the only way we can know anything. As for the peculiar term "scientific community." is that politically-speaking simply another lobby, little different in its acivities from the gay-rights lobby in trying to get the law to silence its opponents?


66 posted on 03/20/2007 4:11:38 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: tacticalogic

First of all what do you mean by "creationists?" That can mean just those who believe that the account of the creation in Genesis has to be taken as it is. More broadly, it is the theological doctrine that the universe is a creation, not just something that "happened." Another part of this is the belief that the universe had a beginning and will have an end. Many thinkers from Aristotle onward, and taught that the universe always existed. Scientists who accept the latter belief might be called anti-creationists, and they can hold to this even though it seems to go against what we now know. Fred Hoyle believed this, I think. Others try the end around notion of multiple universes or consecutive universes, which is also in one form or another a way of accounting for the counter-intuitive aspects of quantum theory. The way that human beings are made indictaes that we can never be satisfied with agnosticism about untilmate things, which is why Eveolutionists and therologicnas each go beyond what they actually know at any given moment.


70 posted on 03/20/2007 4:22:36 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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