Posted on 06/24/2005 4:07:28 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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We can also witness DEEVOLUTION by looking at the liberals as they deevolve back into sheep!
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Nice.
Will we be hosting it at Darwin Central? If so, I'd better start on getting the banquet hall prepared.
As someone who is open-minded on the subject, can you tell me one aspect of the Theory of Evolution which has been scientifically verified, and can be be stated to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
You know I have your url link bookmarked now.
Way cool and again thanks.
I wonder how many "subfields" Intellegent Design has? But at least they have 2 countries involved, the Christians from the US and Islamists from Turkey. It's the Turks, who have recently shown how far advanced they are over us by banning evolution from their schools on threats of religious violence.
Funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) made it possible for more than two dozen students attend the conference and present their recent research in a poster session.
Wow. 20+ graduate students presenting real research on evolution. The article doesn't say how many professionals had new research.
Looks like a theory in crisis to me. [/sarcasm]
If I were PH, I wouldn't answer such a question. The OJ Jury "had a shadow of a doubt". They were completely wrong, but they had a shadow of a doubt. PH could post to you till he's blue in the fact and no doubt you'd "have a shadow of a doubt". Check out his List-O-Links for mountains of evidence if you're truly interested.
The anti-evolutionists at the Discovery Institute and ICR have all the believability of Holocaust deniers. The handful of pseudo scientists at those places scream "EVOLUTION IS IN CRISIS" based on zero original research, as conferences gather in the Galapagos with apparently hundreds of researchers with zero doubt about the fundamental fact of evolution.
I'm not a scientist. But I can spot Intelligent Design quacks selling snake oil when I see them. Like the "Duke" and the "Dauphin" in Mark Twains Huck Finn, revival preaching and snake oil selling seem to go hand in hand.
Evolution has been a theory in crisis for 150 years. Its demise is emminant, just as it has been for each of those years.
Pay no attention to physics, chemistry, astronomy, paleontology, geology. They are all pseudosciences.
One aspect of evolution that has received a bit of confirmation is the age of the earth. Darwin was the first to assert that the earth was at least several hundred milion years old. At the time he made this assertion, physics pegged the maximum possible age of the sun at about 50 million years.
But that was before the discovery of radioactivity.
Only executives from Darwin Central were invited. Since I am only janatorial staff, I certainly did not qualify. (However, in cleaning a waste basket, I saw the memo)
Have you ever seen radioactivity? You sure it's not a conspiracy concocted by the entire scientific community to shore up Darwin???
No, but one time I detected it on my second layer of protective gear. Fortunately, it didn't contaminate my third layer. Third layer was my skin. (I was a hazardous waste technician at the time. That was the ONE and ONLY time that I had to deal with that stuff).
The choice of the Galapagos Islands wasn't exactly random, you know. That's Darwin Central's world HQ. We had a hospitality suite going 24 hours a day, staffed by the usual cohort of nubile ladies.
Well, I am PH, and I had already shrugged off the question before I got to your excellent post. All they have to do is hum a few notes and I can recognize the song.
That's not how science works.
I would regard two things as having been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt: deep geological time (the Earth is 4,500 million years old), and descent with modification from a common ancestor.
Mainstream science regards the mechanism for evolution to be chance plus necessity: random variation and natural selection, i.e., Darwinism. I am inclined to agree with mainstream science, but the ID theorists offer various arguments as to why this cannot be so. I regard Darwinism to have been proved but not beyond a shadow of a doubt; I respect the ID theorists but again I do not think they are correct.
Thanks for the ping!
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