Re: [asa] Scientists urge evolution lessons

Good catch, Don! The origin / origins distinction continually frustrates. Didn’t Darwin really mis-title his manuscript – isn’t it more accurate that he reported on the ‘origins’ of species, since it was more than one ‘origin’ that he was speaking about?
   
  Of course, there are further implications, i.e. whether human beings ‘originated’ from Northern Africa or from many isolated locations; whether the origin(s) of human beings and the origin of the Spirit can be (scientifically) compared, etc.
   
  How many 'origin(s) of life on Earth' 'researchers' are there anyway? Is it a significant percentage?
   
  Gregory

Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: Janice Matchett wrote:

> In a veiled attack on creationism, the world's foremost academies of
> science on Wednesday *called on parents and teachers to provide
> children with the facts about evolution and the origins of life on
> Earth. .."
>
> Of course, that prompted me to ask this question:
> What does hard science (biological evolution)
> have to do with the *origin* of life on earth?
>
I note that Janice has replaced "origins" with "origin". The hard
science (biological evolution) rules out some views on origins (e. g.
separate creation of "kinds").
Don

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