>> Whoever posted the 20 somes quotes discrediting evolution please re-post
>> them, or e-mail me directly.
These quotes hardly discredit evolution. Some of them bad mouth it, but
that is quite a different thing from discrediting it. To discredit
something, anything, requires empirical evidence, and not mere opinion.
If I bad mouth your religion, does that mean your religion is thereby
automatically discredited?
The Gould quotes which I do recognize are taken out of context. Probably a
lot of these quotes are taken out of context. There's no way to tell
without looking them up which is made difficult because are no ISBNs and
publishers cited. Dates are often omitted. Nor are the bona fides of most
authors authors stated. If I say, "Joe Schmo said in a book once that your
religion is a bunch of superstitious crap," does that in and of itself
automatically make your religion a bunch of superstitious crap? Do you
then immediately abandon your religion? Or do you at least first ask which
book, where may I find it, and who the hell is Joe Schmo that I should
believe him?
If a man is an expert in glaciation or discoverer of the thermionic valve,
how does that make him qualified to judge evolution?
Many of these quotes are a century or more old. This means that the
authors lack the insight which the overwhelming flood of empirical
evidence collected since could have given them.
It is disingenuous to quote Gould, not only out of context, but in
seeming agreement with Agassiz, a man whose opinion on the subject Gould
has spent more than a few lines refuting.
There is more wrong with the line of reasoning presented in this
collection of quotes, and in the quotes themselves. At the moment at
least, I don't feel like expending the effort to illustrate them. People
that believe this crap can't be reasoned with and the rest of us don't
need to be. Besides, I'm hungry. I'm going to go fix myself some breakfast.
>There is no dichotomy between the Theory of Evolution and the belief in a
Creator God.
And if there is, so what. The real dichotomy here is between belief and
knowledge. Believe is what you do when you don't know. It's a stupid move.
What smart people do when they don't know, is to find out.
Incidentally, here is how to cite a quotation from a book:
"The complexity of reflexive suspicion can be glimpsed in the nuances of
of the term "disinformation." Disinformation is not misinformation; it is
information expertly laced with strategically chosen misinformation.
Genuine information is the bait to lure the prey to swallow the hook. But
the hook must be carefully hidden and the bait enticing . . . "
-- The End of Privacy by Reg Whitaker, The New Press, New York, 1999,
ISBN 1-56584-378-9, p 12
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