"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Dan Youngquist" wrote:

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Roger wrote:
Try becoming well informed on the evolution/intelligent design
"controversy" if you're not a biologist to begin with.

That's easy. One is based on science and the other on superstition,
some times called faith.

True. But the more I learn about the issue, the more I realize that many
people are confused on which is science and which is faith or
superstition. Even Darwin himself said something to the effect that if
fossils supporting his theory didn't start turning up soon, their absence
would disprove his theory. (150-odd years later, no luck yet.) Things
have only gone downhill since then for the theory of evolution -- the
more we know, the harder it becomes to support the theory from a
scientific standpoint.

You're a fine example of someone who has been grossly misled on the
subject.

1) The fossil record offers fine support for the theory of evolutuion.
Google ambulocetus or archaeopteryx.
2) Genetics, a field of science Darwin didn't even know about, has
provided even stronger evidence.
3) Advances in many other natural sciences--paleontology, biochemistry,
geology--have all affirmed the t. of e.

This is exactly the baloney that a Christian, Republican, conservative,
Bush-appointed judge struck down in Dover, PA. Intelligent Design is not
science; there is no scientific controversy about ToE vs. ID.

Quite...150 years after Darwin, not ONE shread of contradictory evidence has
been raised.


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Which reminds me... I've never understood how people can simultaneously
believe in evolution theory, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy).
Just doesn't make sense, from a scientific or logical standpoint. I've
seen some attempted explanations of this phenomenon, but they don't stand
up to critical and unbiased examination. It's sort of like believing if
you play the slot machines long enough you've just gotta win, when there
are big signs everywhere saying "Our slots return [some number less than
100]%" -- in other words, on average, you are going to lose. But, folks
keep believing what they want to believe, despite the facts staring them
in the face.

More of the bogus arguments I was refering to in my previous post. The
2nd LoT argument is a particularly old often refuted chestnut that keeps
coming up because the ID/Creationist scammers know that most people won't
make the effort to learn why it is BS.

Wake up Dan; you've been had. Try a little reading:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-...ons.html#proof

Took the words (okay...the URL) right out of my mouth.