Posted on 08/15/2006 10:11:10 PM PDT by jla
It's Darwinism's application to justify about every leftist social theory which doesn't play well in an essentially conservative nation.
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Also, there are no American troops in Baghdad.
spot on.
That's because there isn't a controversy about evolution within science.
If it is controversial to you, tell your children that elswhere than in science classes.
The entire creationist belief system is predicated upon the notion that almost every scientist consciously puts aside the evidence to profess something they know is not true.
Such a notion simply does not make logical sense. You can't find that level of unanimity among the oppressed victims of communism, whose very lives are on the line. And yet the scientists are supposed to be even more strongly motivated by a mere emotional investment? Please.
No Christian congregation manages that level of commitment either, I might add.
News flash for Mrs. Schlafly: the scientists overwhelmingly have considered the evidence more deeply than you ever possibly could have, and more honestly besides, and almost to a person have reached a conclusion that is the opposite of yours.
But it can be ridiculed.
Isn't that the truth. I love it when Phyllis uses Ann Coulter's book to support her statements.
A whiner quoting the scientifically illiterate. Oh, yeah, I'm impressed. Not.
[Criticism Of Evolution Can't Be Silenced]
The scientists studying and teaching evolutionary theory, knowing that it's an integral part of science, must always welcome criticism. What they don't welcome is persons who are totally ignorant of not just evolution, but of the methods of science entirely, telling them they're idiots and frauds and demanding that the government force them to teach to the students in their science classes that a religious creation myth is a valid alternative to genuine science.
Exactly. Proponents of ID say they just want to "open a dialogue" and give "alternating viewpoints a chance". It's not creationism, they say!
Well, why do about ALL of the "broad-minded" IDers act in some sort of concert with political evangelicals? Every one of them has some sort of link to religious organizations. ID, carried to its logical end, IS creationism.
So then, is it true that the only reason the vast majority of scientists who believe ID is a sham....just what, reject God? are all acting in consort to enslave our children in a godless, Satanist plot? Get together at Darwin's grave every Halloween and chant incantations?
I don't think so.
I am a professional scientist actually working as a scientist. The vast majority of scientists that I work with acknowledge the shortcomings of evolution as a theory and recognize that it is time to sack the theory as it has been pushed and in effect evolve to a new theory. Those of us who were trained with the "Central Dogma.., Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny...gradualism... precepts etc." have already acknowledged that the facts do not support darwinian evolutionary theory, grown up and moved on. If you are referring to poorly educated public school teachers in general than you may have a point to be made.
[quote]It's Darwinism's application to justify about every leftist social theory which doesn't play well in an essentially conservative nation [/quote]
This is a ludicrous statement. Darwin did no such thing. Neither does Evolution. Just because a theory scares the bejesus out of some people who have no grasp of science more profound than "God make Thunder", "God heap big Man in Sky, him pour rain down on us" does not make for ground of criticism.
You want to believe that God works outside of natural processes go live in a cave because for the rest of us science is the uncovering of just how this universe is put together and the application of that science. I see very little difference between people who believe that God made man out of a mud pie and people who believe that God is waiting on them with 72 virgins in heaven when they kill infidels. One is a little less repugnant socially but both are not much more advanced than the 7th century.
I get tired of primitive screwheads who can't figure out that Evolution and God forbid I say it "Darwinism" is a more conservative idea than that whiny, liberal, hippie they worship as a God.
Just what sort of "Scientist" are you?
A professional scientist. Who coincidentally works....as a scientist.
If evolution theory is true, it wouldn't exist without the Creator's impetus. I used to believe in God 'creating' evolution. But now, with proof still quite elusive and sketchy, I'm not so sure about evolution.
I wondered because you see I'm a professional Archaeologist and I work as an Archaeologist. I don't think that I had met a bonfide professional "Scientist". You know those generalists Scientists they are really coming back in vogue since the Victorian age.
I have never, ever met a professional scientist who rejected the modern synthesis (i.e. that genes are the mechnaism of Darwinian inheritance, and that genetic mutation is the origin of inheritable variation). And I have regularly interacted with life scientists, both personally and professionally. For you to indicate that the "vast majority" of scientists you've met do reject it is frankly unbelievable.
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