To: hoosierskypilot; SpinyNorman; PatrickHenry
You posted a quote supposedly damning evolution. One scientist said something in 1960 and now an entire branch of science is dead? But it's worse, see, when I see supposed anti-evolution quotes mined from creationist websites with those magical ellipses in them, I'm leery of them. As it turns out, of course, your ellipses do a nice job of hiding a sentence which precedes your quote:
"As we know, there is a great divergence of opinion among biologists, not only about the causes of evolution but even about the actual process."
See there, hoosier, he accepts evolution, but is simply calling attention to the difficulties we had (and still have to some extent) with the mechanisms involved. And remember this is 43 years ago, which is an eternity in evolutionary science, which has only been around for just over 100 years! Have you no shame?
To: whattajoke; PatrickHenry
Yeah, I was gonna mention that the journal is decidedly slanted, but figured I'd stick with the ellipses issue. In fact, heres the table of contents from the 43 year old unheard of random journal:
Volume 12 Number 1 March 1960
A Critique of Evolution
Toward an Evangelical Philosophy of Science
The New Challenge to Christian Scholarship
Evolution: Some Recent Points of View
Evangelism among University Students
To: whattajoke; PatrickHenry
The point of the quote is that evolutionists treat their hypotheses as if they were foregone conclusions, and dismiss all who disagree as unscientific. Thompson simply points out that they are unable to verify their claims.
That, IMO, makes it unscientific.
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