Re: Cobb County

> Bad analogy. No one is posing as a scientist, just judging them by their fruit.<

Actually, there's a fair amount of posing as qualified scientists by those who aren't, e.g. the bogus PhD's claimed by some creation scientists.

Not that one has to have a relevant PhD to be a qualified scientist, but that claiming to have a relevant PhD when you don't (or when it is invalid, e.g. self-awarded) is dishonest.

> George wrote: "One of the main problems with this and similar 'warnings' is that they pick out evolution as something uniquely controversial...". But it surely is uniquely controversial, isn't it? For example, do we have an ongoing, widespread and heated debate concerning the germ theory of disease, relativity, or plate tectonics?<

Plate tectonics and relativity have been attacked by various people claiming to provide a "biblical" approach. As with attacks on evolution, this reflects bad exegesis of selected passages, coupled with disregard for passages dealing with truthfulness or good work (not good works, as in good deeds, but good work, as in quality of efforts).

Any legitimate scientific evidence against evolution should be taught, if any is found.

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Received on Tue Jan 18 16:12:22 2005