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Old 05-07-2008   #27 (permalink)
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Default Re: Public Acceptance of Evolution

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Originally Posted by MRiGnS View Post
People promoting creationism are hte show stoppers, I don't see how science can advance if creationist movements say "Guys, this is how it happened, it written in the bible, no need for further debate or research. case closed"

Now the thing they're trying to do is to tell that scientists are the real show stoppers because they want the research being continued and do not accept everything already being discovered and/or written down.

This new approach is completely absurd. (The approach not the people, just in case you want to put something in my mouth.)
I don't think replacing scientific theory and research with bible stories is the answer either, but that is not what this is about.

What is happening is "big sciece" trying to close the debate that even Darwin himself said would have to continue forever.

Just because something is "written down" doesn't make it true. Science is able to observe some things that are observable and reproducable, the rest are gaps that are filled in with theory. Big science is controlling what those theories are, and stopping even the questioning of existing theories.

You make it sound as tho someone is trying to replace fact with fairy tale, and that simply is not the case. This, by the way, is yet another popular bait and switch tactic related to this issue that is abused: calling any criticism of Darwinism or other theories creationism. That's intellectually dishonest.
Eric
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