That sounds like a potentially closed mind to me!
On 05/02/07, Paul Pickering <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Clegg
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:52 AM
>
> >Can I just point out to the assembled throng that I started this as an
> >appeal for an open-minded scientific approach.
>
> In fact, you implied that that children's education was being damaged
> because "Darwinian Evolution" was being taught as though it were "holy
> writ".
>
> That's the reason why I am involved in the discussion.
>
> >All I would wish to say out of what has developed since is - I implore
> >you to examine if your mind is truly open. If you believe fervently
> >that the Darwinian theories and their successors are correct what will
> >you do if presented with something that shoots a fatal hole in them?
>
> Easy. We would bin it and start again. It's only Science, for pity's sake.
> It's not like it's life or death. It's about finding out how the world
> works so as to be able to make it better. Hanging on to a discredited idea
> doesn't figure anywhere in that.
>
> However, in the century and a half since Darwin published his famous book,
> every single newly discovered piece of pertinent evidence - numbering in the
> millions - and including not just new fossil finds but whole new Sciences,
> like Genetics and Molecular Biology - supports it.
>
> None of Biology makes any sense without it.
>
> - Paul
>
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