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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Daniel Packman
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:49
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In article <eFmAd.7627093$6p.1199617@news.easynews.com>,
Sam Stone  <sirian@mental.org> wrote:
>Daniel Packman wrote:
......
>> Leave proof out of it. The current theories that go beyond classical
>> physics are no more Truth than the pure classical model. It is all a
>> model to fit observations. Nothing more. And nothing less.

>Meaning you find super string theory speculative?

>That Wolfram's nautilus of growth isn't as elegant as mathematica?

They are theories like all others and carry sway to the extent they
have predictive power and are in accord with measurement.

...... 
>> If it remains unmeasurable, it remains outside of science.

>Funny the eco-weenies haven't seen things that way.

Creating an imagined group, here "eco-weenies", and ascribing
negative qualities to them doesn't advance your point. 
h


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Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:49:49 +0000 (UTC)
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