jim wrote:
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> Jerry Avins wrote:
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>>jim wrote:
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>>> Evolution as a theory is tainted. It has been for over 150 years. ...
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>>That's an interesting assertion. What taints it?
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> Well you could try reading the part that you snipped instead of asking me to
> repeat it.

I saw nothing in but unfounded assertions about unrelated issues. I
snipped it because it is irrelevant to the question I asked.

> It's tainted by the emotions of its proponents.

Emotions don't taint a theory. I suspect that you don't know what a
theory is.

> Take you and Mr. Cocky for instance your so blinded by your emotions you
> assert repeatedly that Mr. Hackney is a proponent of ID when he never said
> one thing in support of ID and has stated clearly he is not.

You can't cite a message in which I claim that Hackney proposes ID. I
haven't written one. You need to distinguish imagination from reality.

> One has to wonder why its so important to defend evolution. The argument
> is really about Hegemony. The proponents of evolution believe this so way to
> important for the standard rules to apply. If you lose this one everything
> changes. So there really is no room for someone who looks at the evidence and
> says 'well it looks to sparse to draw any meaningful conclusions'.

It's not important to defend the theory of evolution as such. It's
vitally important for us as a society to know what is science and what
is not. I don't object to alternatives to evolution or to those who
believe them to be true. I do object to calling any of the currently
touted alternatives "science". Only theories that can generate testable
predictions are properly subjects of science. Some creationists
denigrate evolution by saying that it is "only" a theory. If course it's
a theory; it would not be scientific otherwise. I have little use for I
have little use for Revealed Truth in matters of scientific inquiry.

> The same thing, of course, applies to the proponents on the other side,
> but you already knew that.

Jerry
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