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This reminds me of the publishing a few years ago of the discovery of T. Tex remains that still contained soft bloody tissue. Immediately, thinking evolutionary heads, with an obvious commitment to an evolutionary point of view, began to buzz about how such tissues might have been preserved over eons of time via some sort of previously known mechanism, a period of time which would ordinarily indicate decompositon. No one even considered the possiblity that the tissues might have been orders of magnitude YOUNGER than “conventional wisdom” would dictate. I am not suggesting that this discovery PROVES that the T. Rex remains are young. I only point out the obvious narrow thinking.

Carl Sagan, and those of like mind, keep their ears tuned to static from other galaxies to find a nonrandom (”intelligetnly designed”???) sequence of signals that might indicate INTELLIGENCE. What desperate hypocrisy, as displayed in this auote of Richard Lewontin, a distinguished Harvard paleonotolgist:

“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute.

Lewontin won’t even let God in the door, the evidence notwithstanding. With this sort of “closed shop” attitude, virually anything could be preached as orthoxdox to the masses, the facts be damned.