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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 18:27:44 [Permalink]
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One of the greatest strengths of science is its contentiousness, making it a powerful, self-correcting engine of discovery.
I do find it amusing that the the best the scientists pious frauds over at DI can come up with is, "Look! The paleontologists are unsure about a detail of human lineage!" DI and it's ilk have a low tolerance for anything but one Truth, and would like to portray this key strength of science as though it were a weakness.
Science may (or may not) eventually remove habilis from consideration in our direct lineage, and replace him with a yet unknown ancestor. Creationist liars hope to be seen as though they had a scientific alternative, while offering... nothing but a lump of clay as our 6,000-year-old ancestor.
(And they laugh at "warm pond" abiogenesis!)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2007 : 13:48:43 [Permalink]
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| Only 2 posts in and creationists were brought up. No mention of them in the article. I find it interesting that there was not much talk about the discovery, but much talk (insults) about the creationists/ID'ers. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
1093 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2007 : 15:17:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb...
Only 2 posts in and creationists were brought up. No mention of them in the article. I find it interesting that there was not much talk about the discovery, but much talk (insults) about the creationists/ID'ers. |
The mention of the creationists was a prediction that they'd eventually get a hold on the story and spin it into some bogus distortion of the real science. And 12 posts in, sure enough, the prediction was shown to have come to pass. And why not have a little fun ridiculing the ridiculous?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 08/16/2007 : 17:06:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
I find it interesting that there was not much talk about the discovery, but much talk (insults) about the creationists/ID'ers. |
If anything, this topic should have been in "Media Issues," since the headlines were way overboard, and the fact is that the vocal creationists ate 'em up anyway. The discovery itself is a big "shrug" from a scientific/skeptic point-of-view, because it's nothing surprising. |
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skeptic griggsy
Skeptic Friend
USA
77 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2007 : 13:46:17 [Permalink]
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 Yes, to all of you! Gish will lie as usual! Please support the Great Ape Project to give more protections for our fellow great apes. |
Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism. Logic is the bane of theists.Religion is mythinformation. Reason saves, not a dead Galilean fanatic. |
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