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To: who_would_fardels_bear
What’s an ‘evolutionist’?

A person who holds to the philosophy of evolutionism.

8 posted on 07/22/2009 7:38:39 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

What’s evolutionism?


10 posted on 07/22/2009 7:46:57 PM PDT by Boxen (There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Noone holds to the so-called philosophy of 'evolutionism'. There is no such thing. It is a made up word.

It is an attempt to put scientists who believe that the theory of evolution is a useful theory on the same level as people who believe in creationism.

Science is not philosophy. There is no way to equate a scientific theory with a philosophy.

Creationism is neither a scientific theory nor a philosophy; it is a religious belief.

Creationism may in fact be true, but there is no way to prove it scientifically, and there is no way to argue for it philosophically.

Philosophers can argue for the existence of God, and that God created the universe, but there is no way to argue philosophically that God created the world as we know it about ~6000 years ago.

Likewise there is no way to prove scientifically that the Earth was created ~6000 years ago.

The paper you site is an excellent contribution to the scientific discourse. It will either be found to be incorrect, or it will help to improve the methods that scientists use to show if/when natural selection occurs.

The scientists' reluctance to question natural selection outright is an understandably conservative conclusion from their results. What they discovered did not disprove natural selection, in merely brought into doubt conclusions made by other scientists.

This is the way that science should be done.

11 posted on 07/22/2009 7:47:19 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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