Apostle
What I was trying to instill in you when I mentioned those names was not to deny their influence but,rather,to point out that it does not matter whether a person is an expert but that his evidence backs up his statements.
Now you seem to be quite hostile towards Richard Dawkins as this sentence shows.
"A man like Dawkings starts with his beliefs and then finds evidence for them. Sometimes the evidence is also very questionable."
Which evidence do you find questionable that Dawkins presents?
Also you post.
'Roger Lewin, Shapiro, many honest men hold to the evolutionary belief but they are honest enough to say when they just do not know"
In what instance did you find
these men being honest in their assesment of what they do or do not know.
It is useful in science to distrust experts since that leaves you free to judge their work on the evidence and not the name so if you distrust Dawkins I have no qualms about it. That said now we will let you present
your arguements against the arguements presented by Dawkins.
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[This message has been edited by sidelined, 11-15-2003]