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To: Tom C who wrote (93826)	1/17/2005 4:39:13 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

If it shuts people up, I'm for putting those stickers on everything- except religious texts- which should have the following sticker: This book contains material on faith. Faith is a belief, and has nothing to do with science. This material should be approached with a closed mind, since it's belief, and you don't want to examine it too closely- God forbid you should lose your faith! :-) The history of science is replete with discarded theories- discarded Gods are piling up as well (where are the believers in Zeus and Odin?), but religion really isn't designed with God discarding in mind, and science is based partly on discarding things- that's what the null hypothesis is all about.

To: Tom C who wrote (93826)	1/17/2005 4:48:17 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I've produced nearly that same post at some time in the past. It fell on deaf ears. There is something special about biology because very specific statements are made in Genesis about the lineage of animals and humans, their source material and development. Genesis is silent on conservation of momentum, the mobility of protons in aqueous solutions or computational mathematics. It is only because some very specific statements are made in Judeo-Christian dogma that SOME religious people feel compelled to act. If, in Genesis, God created stars by sweeping together the glitter from the ocean waves and sprinkling them in the sky, then these same nutters would be asking for the same thing in Astronomy as they are for biological matters. Since Noah carried all animals two-by-two (even presumably things like the ebola virus and both sexually and asexually reproducing slime molds) and kept them all together and alive for 40 days on a single 600 foot long ship, the test case for Evolution is a very important wedge to drive into the heart of scientific inquiry. It would be a relatively simple matter to measure the DNA or dietary requirements of surface animals and determine that such a detail of mythology is clearly impossible. But by setting the wedge into evolution, which is always bound by the limits of the rock record, disingenuous people seek to implement universal religious dogma into one of the last refuges of critical thinking left on the planet: Academia.