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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:25:53 +0000 (UTC)
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"Piorokrat" <piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote:
>As far as I can make out there are two main schools of thought on the
>origins of the world, Creation and Evolution. Creationists may differ among
>themselves as to the exact answer to questions and evolutionists do also,
>but effectively these are the two schools.
No, that's a misconception common among creationists, who don't seem to
grasp how specialized the world of science has become -- indeed,
creationists often act as if science and evolution were one and the
same.
Evolution theorists are concerned with how species turn into other
species; that's all. The origin of life is a different area of study, as
is the origin of the planet we call Earth.
>if you take Usenet as a cross-section of world society
It's not. Usenet is a self-selected population.
>We are Creationists, you are Evolutionists, who's gonna make you guys think
>if we don't?
Discoveries made in the real world?
>As scientists, you should welcome an opposition, you should even for that
>reason be willing to have both sides presented to kids in class.
But you're not opposition. You are to biology what astrology is to
astronomy. You are no more opposition than the Flat Earth Society is
opposition to NASA.
However, as a political movement trying to push us into a Taliban-like
theocracy, you ARE of some concern. The fear of that happening is what
drives most anti-creationists.
>But Lenny, and others, defend their position with zealous envy, and when any
>Creationist wishing to put the view from the other side comes along they get
>treated as if they were Jehovah's Witnesses or something. I don't call that
>a spirit of scientific enquiry.
Then you don't know what scientific inquiry is. The politically correct
notion that, in the interest of fairness and playing nice, everyone's
opinion is worthy of respect is simply absurd in the world of science.
When it comes to science, the proof is in the pudding: you put up or
shut up.
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