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Vern Green wrote:
I don't really have a problem accepting evolution. In fact, I feel
evolution and the bible co-exist rather well. There are passages in
the bible that discuss other people that lived on the earth at the
time of Adam and Eve. I don't claim to say that Adam and Eve were the
first "human beings" on earth, but instead I hold the view that Adam
and Eve are the first of God's children.
This view of course bugs the heck out of Mike, he would say that it is
just a way to prop up my religion with science and that I should just
throw my belief in religion away and stay with science. Whatever.
The problem I have in this whole evolution thing is the discontinuity
in the science. I still hear that 96% of the chimp DNA matches humans,
yet there is very well documented and proven evidence that the number
is only around 87%. Why then would the scientific community continue
to tout a number that is not correct if they do not have an agenda?
Once the scientific community takes on an agenda, as they have with
evolution and the environment, then their scientific data becomes
tainted. They spend so much time trying to prove their agenda, that
they either purposely or accidentally overlook valid data collected by
people who are trying to prove their opposite agenda. What happens to
the precious scientific model at that point?
Yes, but the way to respond to someone with an agenda is not then to go
and pick a different agenda.
On global warming I have absolutely no idea whether it is real or not.
There is no authority I can turn to and ask who is right. The arogant
scientists got it right with evolution, but as best I can see they got
it wrong with the ethics of stem cell research. The right wing
fundamentalists are probably right about stem cell research (but why
don't they also decry the very fertility methods that create the frozen
embryos in the first place, which to my mind have similar unresolved
ethics problems), but the right wing are extremely content to trot out
very bad science to support their anti-evolution viewpoint - and
continue to do so even after the rottenness of their arguments is shown
to them.
Stephen
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