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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: They want to debate Phillip Johnson
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:10:17 GMT
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- In article <qXiuXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>, system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- |>
- |> An open letter to Dr. Phillip Johnson:
- |>
- |> philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson) writes:
- |>
- |> > I am not sure that it is possible to hold a discussion in this
- |> > group, because the majority of participants seem to consider the
- |> > neo-Darwinian theory to be so obviously true that doubt is not
- |> > taken seriously.
- |>
- |> It is true that most of the participants in this newsgroup take some
- |> form of Darwinism as absolute fact. Furthermore, most of them
- |> believe that it has been "proven scientifically" and therefore doubt is
- |> not to be taken seriously.
-
- As someone who has said several times in the past, and indeed again
- just the other day, that this kind of proof beyond any doubt simply
- isn't attainable, I'd like to dissociate myself from this statement.
-
- I have always said, and I believe that at one time or another I've
- seen most of the posteres here say, that evolutionary theories are
- not statements about philosophical "truth" but are models that fit
- or don't fit the data. That being so, they are *always* open to
- new data, doubt and debate.
-
- I have a question, though. How does Kalki Dasa know in such detail
- what people think?
-
- jon.
-