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Article #31727Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Sam Stone
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:55
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:55
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Daniel Packman wrote: > In article <gFzzd.6515$iC4.5014@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, > Harold E. Robbins <herobbins@netscape.net> wrote: > ...... > >>You have to have some excuse for the order and the natural laws which >>govern this universe. Unless of course you have changed your mind and >>believe it all happened by accident. > > > There is no scientific requirement to have either "an excuse" > or "an accident". Intent is not a scientific concept. Do tell? So in studying ecosystems one would not weigh the "intent" of humans in their actions upon the environment? > Dealing > with natural laws is the realm of science. I think that it also handily falls in the moral realm, or so the tree huggers maintain... > Pondering over the > meaning of having natural laws is philosophy or religion. So we can disabuse the eco-weenies of any scientific halo and instead render judgment on their platforms based solely on "religious" or "philosophical" tenets? Goodness, I see a glimmer of hope for drilling ANWR on the horizon.
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