From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 15:00:18 EDT
Josh wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Josh Bembenek [mailto:jbembe@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:20 PM
>To: hvantill@chartermi.net; glennmorton@entouch.net; asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Cambrian Explosion
>
>
>Perhaps we should turn our collective brains off, practice uncritical
>thinking, and accept any quasi-science (fiction) story that comes along if
>it tends to support evolution? Perhaps not only "IDers", but biochemists
>and molecular phylogenists will be interesting in trying to understand the
>veracity of these types of claims. But I guess when Dawkins writes it in
>his next book, we'll know for sure it's true, right?
Josh, have you ever noticed how you seem quite often to think others don't
think critically? Have you ever noticed that you almost always oppose
scientific explanations? Have you ever noticed the logical deduction that
this requires that you are the most critically thinking individual on earth?
Have you ever noticed that this logically requires that you be one of the
few people with the true knowledge on the face of the earth, i.e., that the
vast majority of others are wrong? Have you considered how this might look
a bit egotistical to those observing you?
I only mention this because when I was an anti-evolutionist, I was plagued
with these problems as well. I could never be happy about a scientific
discovery because I had to disagree with it, had to explain it away and
comment on how ridiculous it was for people to believe that stuff. It meant
that I thought I knew better than all those others, when in fact, I was
merely being egotistical.
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