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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Daniel Packman
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:22
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In article <ACdEd.13547$iC4.2416@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
Harold E. Robbins <herobbins@netscape.net> wrote:

>Daniel Packman wrote:

>> Unless you can show a measurable difference between accident
>> and design, this remains a issue outside the realm of science.

>THen stop calling the myth of evolution, "science".  You cannot measure 
>it, you cannot prove it, you cannot calculate the differences because 
>you have nothing before man to provide evidence of the events needed to 
>call it "science".

You can measure consequences of evolutionary theory.

You cannot "prove" anything in science, but you can verify it
against experimental results.

And your last point makes no sense to me.

-- 
Daniel Packman
NCAR/ACD
pack@ucar.edu
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Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:22:30 +0000 (UTC)
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