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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The poorly educated always take the word "evolution" to mean "did man come from monkeys?" Surely this is the problem the Georgia people have.
In fact, that close species can evolve isn't, I think, too controversial. Take mammouths and elephants. Clearly, there was evolution there.
What is really the problem with "evolution" replacing "Creationism" entirely is the existance of several points like I mention, which require a "miracle."
My pet peeve here is that the less well-washed accept anything a scientist says as Gospel truth. That why we have the periodic bizarre global warming screeds from San Fransico posters.
My overall goal on this board is not to change any of these people's mind to vote for Republicans. My simple goal here is to get you all to recognize that much science should be questioned, and not accepted mindlessly.
You blindly accept a scientific theory to denounce someone else, who blindly accepts religious theory. I don't mean to be snotty, but to allow this to stand would harm my broader agenda.
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If your overall goal is to get people to question science, wouldn't you be a big supporter of the scientific method? How does Intelligent Design or creationism advance that agenda? If science can't explain why there appears to be a jump from single to multi-cell organisms in fossils about 6-700 million years ago, wouldn't you want to keep testing and exploring and fixing your theory? How does saying, "an advanced being played a part in this," do that?
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