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Old 05-06-2008   #25 (permalink)
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Default Re: Public Acceptance of Evolution

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Originally Posted by 1veedo View Post
This happens often? I remember recently a "scientist" tried to get published in Nature and when Nature didn't publish his article he got mad, talking about "discrimination." In reality his article was of very low quality and had no evidence so he just ended up making a fool of himself.

This is of course irreverent to what we were talking about. Changing the subject doesn't change the meaning of evolution when scientists talk about it. It's not like science is perfect or anything though.
It happens too often for you to make statements like you did. And no, I wasn't referring to people getting articles printed in magazines, I was talking about well-credentialed scientists already in the field.

Did you mean to say "irrelevent?" Anyway, not sure who changed the subject, if you'd like to discuss the various meanings of evolution some more, I'm game.

No truer words can be said than those in your last sentence. This is the common ground we can work from. Science has come a long way, but it has a history of being wrong time and again, and to think we've suddenly hit the peak of perfection is silly.
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