From: Dawsonzhu@aol.com
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 20:57:53 EDT
Joel wrote:
> It has been too easy for us to claim they should publish in refereed
> profession journals and then have them respond with generic claims about biases. I
> think it is time to push for scientific evidence to back the claims rather
> than innuendo.
>
There almost surely is bias in the scientific journals. Not all of it is
undeserved, but I would wager that it is almost certainly grossly
unfair. Even for rather prosaic issues, sometimes the mindset of
some scientists toward people who are different does not particularly
impress me. In almost blatant double standard form,
they can also keep asking for more and more "evidence" to fill in
some grasping-at-straws "gap" they're desperately hanging onto,
they can also ignore data, and they can try to dismiss problems with
half-baked appeals to future discoveries,..... just like Creationists
(at least) appear to be doing most of the time. Both sometimes even
resort to various forms of "politics" when their "science" can't stand
on its own, which is probably one of the __greatest__ evils of all I think.
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Could this be me one day? Knowledge and wisdom are best evidenced
by signs of humility and magnanimity, in my opinion. Temptation is hard,
but I _hope_ this is not the example I will set.
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Nevertheless, a __sound__ theory is not shaken by hard testing. In fact, it
only gets __much__ stronger and more unassailable by its opponents.
Evolution is probably the most opposed theory in the entire history
of science. It will probably will take more than 400 years for some
pious folk to "forgive" Darwin. It is very unfortunate because I still think
the roots of the best science are strongly influenced by scripture. I just
hope we (Christians) set a much better example in this new century.
by Grace alone we proceed,
Wayne
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