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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Josh wrote:
The ICR themselves give several answers to this. First, its far from a
complete list but rather just a list of those directly involved with the
ICR. (See below for notes on the deceased.) Furthermore, there are so
many individuals like Mike in the scientific fields that immediately
discount a person that professes belief in something other than
evolution.
People who are willing to foresake science for a creation myth deserve to
be "discounted." It might help them to get along with their religious
friends, and maybe they get some money from the ICR, but they aren't
presenting an alternative *scientific* theory. If they have one, I'll
listen, but the fact is -- there is no alternative scientific theory to
evolution. That's all there is. In 150 years of careful study by
hundreds of thousands of people spending millions of hours, evolution
totally destroyed every competitor. We now know something very deep about
our origins and the origins of all species. It is really sad that the
religious people can't break out of their restrictive belief systems to
see the obvious truth.
As a scientist I am allowed to believe anything at all. There are no
rules. There is no rule saying that I must support evolutionary theory.
In religion it is different. Many religious people believe that their
religion tells them where the world and all living things came from.
Those people will not listen to evidence. They avoid putting themselves
in touch with the facts. They question even the most well established
aspects of evolutionary theory without even looking at the evidence.
Rather than see this as tragic, I prefer to see it as comical. They are
preposterous and I can enjoy laughing at them. They are more than
deserving of this treatment.
Mike
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