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To: Wthrman13
Well said indeed. I am also an active reasearcher, in the atmospheric sciences, and I cringe everytime some narrow-minded intellectual elitist claims that rejecting evolution is tantamount to rejecting the scientific method. It really, really irritates me.

The act of rejecting evolution is not in itself tantamount to rejecting the scientific method. Unfortunately, in practice it usually is. That is, the person rejecting evolution almost always does so by throwing a great deal of science and the scientific method out the window.

One of the more classic examples is the "young Earth Creationists", who reject a huge amount of science, from many, many fields, that indicates the Earth/Universe is much more than just a few thousand years old. But other flavors of creationists have their own list of what parts of science and the scientific method they want to jettison in order to bolster their beliefs.

146 posted on 04/20/2003 7:44:41 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
The act of rejecting evolution is not in itself tantamount to rejecting the scientific method.

Well, you got one thing right. Evolution is not science. It dismisses cause and effect for random events.

Unfortunately, in practice it usually is.

Totally false. In practice scientists totally disregard evolution. The greatest advances in biology today are being done by disregarding evolution. Evolution teaches that one can haphazardly construct highly intricate systems. Science knows better that is why most research today is being done in finding the connections between different genes, functions, and systems in organisms - something which evolution has denied since its inception.

239 posted on 04/21/2003 8:21:06 PM PDT by gore3000
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