Coragyps

A couple of news releases that may be of interest to some of you:<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020304081153.htm" target="_blank">This one </a> on gene duplication in a colobine monkey
and
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/07/tech/main503206.shtml" target="_blank">this </a> on a new hypothesis re modern humans' origins.

[ March 09, 2002: Message edited by: Coragyps ]</p>

Principia

You know,

I have a feeling in the end, that regardless of how much evidence or how much explaining a scientist offers to people like Creationists, not much will change. I was watching a sound-byte from a TV news show last night. The man was talking about some Satanic cult and offered his view that if a belief is strong enough, any limited set of facts can be weaved and edited into a coherent worldview. Satan for these people, he noted, *did* exist and motivated them to do strange things. I think the statement about editing contradictory facts to fit a theory is exactly what Creationism is about.

Well, having spent (only) a week on the ARN board, I'm about to give up there. These people keep demonstrating their inadequate grasp of scientific theories, but they sure are ready for a fight. I haven't even begun to talk about the actual tenets of ID, because all of their premises are wrong. Most of them still employ a reverse logic, saying that because ID must be right, therefore the premises must be right.

&lt;sigh&gt;
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