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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