Posted on 07/10/2002 11:51:16 AM PDT by Mr.Clark
The real difference is that science polices itself and exposes errors/hoaxes/lies through peer review. ICR has a diferent system...if it can create doubt, counter evolutionist theory, or garner support is will be used without regard to fact, evidence, or peer review. ICR is not a scientific institution as it claims. Its staff is chock full of frauds and liars whose sole purpose are to spread unfounded propoganda.
EBUCK
EBUCK
Yes! It's the devil's work!!
I assume you're referring to Haeckel's biogenetic law. It's been dead for a long time. see history of biogenetic law
It wasn't a hoax. It was a flawed theory. There's a big difference. Piltdown man was a hoax.
I obviously cannot say that scientists are saints (good choice of wording if I do say so myself) but compared to the ICR staff they are certainly on the sainthood "alternate" squad and just waiting for an injury.
EBUCK
Well it's a good thing we have you, the truth detector, why with that kind of logic the debate is over -- who dare argue with an ex cathedra statement of omniscience like that.
Not that it matters, but...When man went to the moon who was the head of NASA? And what was his faith? Me thinks you speak too soon.
No doubt. And well put to boot. The thing that tips the scales is evidence. Either you got or you don't. Science has it. And despite the dogma in many scientific circles the peer review process always seems to get to the bottom of things, AKA, the truth.
EBUCK
Consider this:
c. 2725 B.C. - Imhotep in Egypt considered the first medical doctor
c. 2540 B.C. - Pyramids of Egypt constructed
c. 2000 B.C. - Chinese discovered magnetic attraction
c. 700 B.C. - Greeks discovered electric attraction produced by rubbing amber
c. 600 B.C. - Anaximander discovered the ecliptic (the angle between the plane of the earth's rotation and the plane of the solar system)
c. 600 B.C. - Thales proposed that nature should be understood by replacing myth with logic; that all matter is made of water
c. 585 B.C. - Thales correctly predicted solar eclipse
c. 530 B.C. - Pythagoras developed mathematical theory
c. 500 B.C. - Anaximenes introduced the ideas of condensation and rarefaction
c. 450 B.C. - Anaxagoras proposed the first clearly materialist philosophy - the universe is made entirely of matter in motion
c. 370 B.C. - Leucippus and Democritus proposed that matter is made of small, indestructible particles
c. 300 B.C. - Euclid wrote "Elements", a treatise on geometry
c. 300 B.C. - Aristarchus proposed that the earth revolves around the sun; calculated diameter of the earth
c. 300 B.C. - The number of volumes in the Library of Alexandria reached 500,000
c. 220 B.C. - Archimedes made discoveries in mathematics and mechanics
c. 150 A.D. - Ptolemy studied mathematics, science, geography; proposed that the earth is the center of the solar system
190 - Chinese mathematicians calculated pi to five decimal places
271 - Chinese mathematicians invented the magnetic compass
335 - Aristotle established the Lyceum; studied philosophy, logic, science
415 - A mob of rioters burned down the Library of Alexandria, and much of the recorded knowledge of the western world was lost
450-1000 - the "Dark Ages" in Europe
They need to look for eyebrow pencil above brow ridge.
That is most difinitive.
And yet it remained in college textbooks as late as the mid 90's. And so it was a fraud and a hoax perpetrated on students for decades because it supported the orthodoxy of evolution.
That's partly because they have been caught 'quotemining' numerous times. As has Behe (at least once), as I pointed out here.
I can't take people who engage in that sort of behavior seriously, except as potential criminals and con artists to keep an eye on.
EBUCK
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I donno. But amber can be used to generate static electricity, so there's an obvious connection.
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