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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Pathetic?
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 16:03:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 16:03:12 1985
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>WHAT MANY EVOLUTIONISTS ON THIS NET SEEM TO FAIL TO REALIZE IS THE THE
>'ENVIRONMENT' IN WHICH THE 'DEBATE' ABOUT EVOLUTION IS TAKING PLACE IN OUR
>SOCIETY TODAY IS ONE IN WHICH EVOLUTION IS SEEN TO HAVE CARRIED THE DAY,
>AND SO IT IS RIGHT, AS A TECHNIQUE, TO CRITICISE EVOLUTION POINT BY POINT
>IN MAKING A CASE FOR CREATIONISM.
>As has been pointed out here several times, while the exhalted presenses
>on the net may not believe any longer in the development of the embryo
>as a argument for evolution it is still an 'evidence' with much of the
>'great unwashed' public school herd.  Still in some textbooks used, etc.
>Perhaps the most that can be said against mentioning the idea on the net
>is that most HERE no longer use it.  But pathetic? . . . no.
>Regards,
>Ken Arndt

What many creationists on this net seem to fail to realize is that the
'environment' in which the 'debate' about evolution SHOULD be taking
place is in the scientific community, where it belongs.  Public school
is not the proper place to 'filibuster' for scientific ideas.  However,
many creationists realize that politics is the only possible hope they
have for getting their way (as the scientists aren't having any).  The day
we decide what science is on the basis of public opinion is the day
science dies.

Keith Doyle
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