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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Lame?  LAME???
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 17:08:14 EST
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> > Quite so.  And that puts a certain amount of pressure on the central
> > dogma, if it is alleged to be the sole or dominant mechanism of
> > evolutionary change. 
> 
> It's possible that the death of science for you stems from the
> fact that you consider science to be a dogma, and therefore in
> conflict with the dogma of your religious faith.
> 
> Those for whom science is still alive consider the body of knowlege
> given us by science to be very incomplete and no doubt wrong
> in some respects.  That is to say, not dogmatic.
> 
> This is not to say that there are not many tenured professors
> of science for whom science has died. (did I get all my negatives
> straight?)  Scientific dogmatism is a reflection on the individual,
> not on science itself.  If science ever does get to be dogmatic,
> then it will certainly be time to relegate it to the status of
> a religion.  Then we can decide issues in the tried and true
> religious method:  we can have wars.

All I meant was that cultural transmission of information provides
(i.e., can logically provide) a mechanism for propagation of change
not necessarily linked to genetics.

You had better go look up what the central dogma is.  It's NOT my
term.  I didn't make it up.
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