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To: tallhappy
The issue is there has been historically a lot of pseudoscience associated with evolutionary theory -- Lamarkianism, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, eugenics.

Lamarckism and Recapitulation theory were 19th century theories. Neither were correct, but neither were they psuedoscience. None of them survived testing.

Eugenics is not even pseudoscience, it has nothnig to do with science. It has as much to do with Creationism as evolution.

Pseudoscience seldom crept in to as high a level in any other natural sciences discipline.

Well if you are going to lower the bar to allow Lamarckism and Recapitulation theory to be called pseudo science then I will mention Einstein's cosmological constant as an example of pseudoscience. The geocentric model as another.

Astrology or orgone field never entered in to legitimate institutions of science in astonomy or biology in the manner the above mentioned did in evolutionary biology.

Neither did eugenics.

Or bad science, peppered moths and the like.

Peppered moths is good science, not bad science.

The slipshod nature of so much evolutionay teaching, and use of it to promote sociopolitical belief or agenda, has contributed to a widespread skepticism of the field.

I think the root of the skepticism is ignorance personally. On another thread it mentioned a poll done that showed 20% of people believe the Sun orbits the Earth.

52 posted on 08/30/2005 10:55:37 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: bobdsmith
Peppered moths is good science, not bad science.

onsider this:

http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/Moths/moths.html

Forget how to do a link. Neat, nuetral article on the "Peppered Moth" evidence.

55 posted on 08/30/2005 11:01:07 AM PDT by jimmyray
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