Posted on 08/11/2006 11:54:04 AM PDT by presidio9
Nope. That is a book that you happen to agree with. It is making assumptions and statements that are declarations of faith not of fact. The correct Scientific answer is "We don't know". It is interesting that the proponents of the Church of Science are so dogmatic in pronouncing anathema on anyone who does not blindly worship at their shrine. Seems once again the Dogmatic Leftist are projecting their own emotional and intellectual shortcoming onto their ideological foes.
"This study reeks of a waste of the perfectly good and harmless trees used to publish it."
It's actually worse than that, when you think about it. It's really just a political hit piece. Professors doing studies at taxpayer expense to justify their partisanship and back up the political positions of the parties to which they owe their allegience.
Oh noooooooooooooooo, we're all going to die!
OK so you say that either you believe in God and no evolution or you believe in Evolution and no God? Thats ridiculous, you can believe as a matter of faith that God created evolution, evolution only deals with the physical world and explanations, God is however an answer to those of us with faith to those questions that cannot be answered.
The problem is conservatives either buy evolution or don't but liberals NEED evolution to be true. This is the real reason none of the lingering questions about evolution can be taught in public schools. If it were merely science then there could be disent. But it's faith, and disent against faith is heresy.
"The correct answer is "We don't know"."
The only answer I am willing to give on the subject: "I have no idea."
Evolution is not something to believe in. It is a means of classifying zillions of lifeforms and fossils.
Really? Which parties would those be?
What a preposterous piece of balderdash.
"you can believe as a matter of faith that God created evolution,"
That is the belief of several people I know.
In looking at the definition of theory.... the sixth point outlined below is interesting...
"the·o·ry Pronunciation (th-r, thîr)
n. pl. the·o·ries
1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.
3. A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.
4. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
5. A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
6. An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.
[Late Latin theria, from Greek theri, from theros, spectator : probably the, a viewing + -oros, seeing (from horn, to see).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved."
Hardly, genus and species are a means of classification, evolution is a theory about how the came to be that way.
Isn't the general 'rule' around here to ping someone when you talk about them?
But of course. ...and that is precisely what the poster you responded to expressed.
Denying the intimate biological kinship of humanity to all the other life on earth requires deep irrationality driven by ignorance, driven either by being ill-informed or choosing to be ill-educated.
This kind of belief borders on magic.
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