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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Ideology and Indoctrination
- Message-ID: <107015@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:47:29 GMT
- References: <1k8u78$nu1@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1k8u78$nu1@agate.berkeley.edu>
- philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson) writes:
-
- }BEGINNING of Chapter Two of Darwin on Trial: "As the process of
- }differential survival continues, the trait eventually spreads
- }throughout the species, and it may become the basis for further
- }*cumulative* improvements in succeeding generations. Given
- }enough time, and *sufficient mutations of the right sort,*
- }enormously complex organs and patterns of adaptive behavior can
- }eventually be produced in tiny *cumulative* steps, without the
- }assistance of any pre-existing intelligence." P. 17
- }
- }Of course, to me that's a hypothesis, not a dogma to be
- }propounded.
-
- It is not a "dogma" being propounded, it is a theory which is
- consistent with the evidence, and which is still being tested in labs
- all over the world. If you don't like that, then your problems are
- with all of science, not just biology. I and others have repeatedly
- pointed out to you that in order to be internally consistent, you
- should be just as concerned with things like meteorology. Do you
- constantly flood the weather channel with letters to their producers
- complaining about how they're not constantly saying (for example),
- "although our best evidence indicates a that the weather will be clear
- over washington DC today, we can't rule out the possibility that God
- will produce little tornados focussed on members of the Clinton
- administration..."
-
- }Phillip E. Johnson
- } School of Law, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-