Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Quila
Evolution: Over the last hundred+ years, this is how science has and is figuring out how we came about. Read any of several thousand books (not all agreeing on all points), go on digs yourself, do your own experiments and come to your own conclusions. You are free to publish scientific attacks on evolution, and if you happen to be the one who takes down the theory with a scientific argument, you'll be more famous than Darwin.

If you're interested in fairytales I'd recommend Pushkin; the kind of thing you describe is a system of fairytales for grown people. Moreover, it's a system of fairytales based upon a patently idiotic theory which has known and unavoidable pathalogical social and political consequences, and that theory is being held at present, despite overwhelming disproofs having been presented, for essentially religious reasons by scientists who should know better. Moreover, the adherents of this theory are continuing to insist that it be taught as a fact in public schools at public expense and make all possible efforts to suppress scientific dissenting opinions using every agency of American government and jurisprudence available to them.

Like I say, that kind of fairytale has no particular appeal to me. The question will ultimately be settled in courtrooms and ballotboxes and that is proper, since it is basically a political issue.

127 posted on 03/27/2002 4:20:53 AM PST by medved
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 120 | View Replies ]


To: medved
If you're interested in fairytales I'd recommend Pushkin; the kind of thing you describe is a system of fairytales for grown people.

As opposed to the fairy tales from the first bullet? At least the evolution tales weren't made by the same people who believed the Earth to be flat and the stars to be set in an Earth-covering dome with a heaven beyond.

Moreover, it's a system of fairytales based upon a patently idiotic theory which has known and unavoidable pathalogical social and political consequences

Political and social problems have nothing to do with the validity of a theory. The heliocentric theory begat serious political, religious, philosophical, and social problems, yet there aren't too many people challenging it anymore.

and that theory is being held at present, despite overwhelming disproofs having been presented,

If overwhelming scientific (not religious pseudoscience) disproofs existed, evolution theory would have fallen and the disprover would be a very famous and probably rich person. This is the way science works.

134 posted on 03/27/2002 5:26:17 AM PST by Quila
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson