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ringo

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Message 158 of 210 (359994)
10-30-2006 9:05 PM

Reply to: Message 157 by Rob
10-30-2006 8:31 PM

Rob writes:

As Malcomb Muggeridge said, "the depravity of man is at once, the most emperically verifiable reality. Yet at the same time, it is the most intellectually resisted fact."

That cuts both ways - for those who study evolution and also for those who oppose it.

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Message 195 of 210 (361209)
11-03-2006 6:10 PM

Reply to: Message 192 by Rob
11-03-2006 5:54 PM

Rob writes:

Being a scientist does not make one immune from bias....

You've missed the fundamental point: the peer-review process involves scientists with different biases.

A Muslim-biased scientist can't cite experimental results unless an atheist-biased scientist can repeat them. A Christian-biased scientist can't produce a theory that a Hindu-biased scientist won't accept. No one scientist's Republican bias or homosexual bias or vanilla-ice-cream bias determines the results that science produces.

It's rather like democracy - it's not a perfect system, but it's the best we humans can manage.

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Message 200 of 210 (361216)
11-03-2006 6:20 PM

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11-03-2006 6:13 PM

Rob writes:

Precisely why an inhuman process is the only thing capable of changing us.

We're not talking about "changing us".
We're talking about answering questions like, "How old is the earth?"

And unless you can point to evidence of "inhuman processes", you have no business mentioning them in a science thread.

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