Re: Why assume a lie?

Susan B (susan-brassfield@ou.edu)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 17:38:36 -0600 (CST)

Bertvan:
>A materialist philosophy is as viable as a philosophy which includes purpose,
>plan and design. Anyone should be free to choose. If Darwinism is defined
>as excluding plan, purpose or design, anyone should be free to be skeptical.

Evolution is a change in gene frequency in a population over time.
Variation--upon which natural selection acts--appears to occur by chance,
but may or may not, of course. Science can't really speak to whether a
"designer" (not the Christian god, of course, maybe Little Green Guys from
outer space) is influencing gene replication errors. Whether the LGGs are
involved or not evolution proceeds as usual.

If you drop a rock and it falls straight down to the ground you have a data
point supporting the Theory of Gravity. What's irritating is when the
"skeptic" says "Angels pushed it to the ground, you can't prove otherwise
and it's religion to say something you can't see like gravity pulled it down."

Before you go to work scientifically proving that LGGs influence gene
relplication errors, I want to see you scientifically prove the existence of
the LGGs.

Susan
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