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Message 6 of 75 (351410)
09-22-2006 5:10 PM

Reply to: Message 5 by Jazzns
09-22-2006 5:03 PM

Re: I'll Bite

He's turned! Percy has turned!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!

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Message 17 of 75 (351448)
09-22-2006 6:10 PM

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09-22-2006 6:03 PM

Re: I'll Bite

Exactly! Why not? After all, new evidence requires new assessment. That's what distinguishes science from religion, where you assume that people knew everything 1000s of years ago, and nothing we can do will add to or change that knowledge.

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Message 20 of 75 (351463)
09-22-2006 7:24 PM

Reply to: Message 19 by AnswersInGenitals
09-22-2006 6:37 PM

Re: Faith gets specific!

I believe evolutionists leave the assessment of the earth's age to geologists and astronomers, who have the training, knowledge, and tools to make the best estimate possible with current technology.

I don't mean to be a contrarian, but I'm going to.

I'm pretty sure biologists determine the age of the earth, not geologists and the other kind of ologists that you mentioned. Biologists use the discredited theory of evilution. I've never really understood exactly how they do that, I think it has something to do with either tree rings or the half life of the bacteria in Thomas Huxley's bedroom slippers. But I'm quite sure that the theory of evilution is behind it all. Then eveyone else just agrees with that, assuming it's correct since nobody else has any better ideas.

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Message 26 of 75 (351557)
09-23-2006 9:45 AM

Reply to: Message 25 by Percy
09-23-2006 9:36 AM

The answer is obvious

What causes scientists to instead focus their attention on a rather narrow set of views?

The Devil made 'em do it.

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Message 30 of 75 (351615)
09-23-2006 3:15 PM

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09-23-2006 1:59 PM

You forgot to mention....

.... Feyerabend sitting somewhere near the back, wearing a black armband, Kuhn out front distributing copies of his Old Paradigm-New Paradigm translation book, and the Logical Positivists serving sheep dip at the post-conference coffee klatch.

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Message 47 of 75 (351914)
09-24-2006 9:38 PM

Reply to: Message 46 by Hyroglyphx
09-24-2006 8:42 PM

Re: I'll Play

Yes of course, that's it.

All dem evilutionists is stoopid and jes' b'lieve what dey tole.

Sure is a good thing we have all these creationists, so committed to the purity of science, to point out our error.

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Message 66 of 75 (352166)
09-25-2006 3:34 PM

Reply to: Message 65 by RAZD
09-25-2006 3:07 PM

Re: A related question, maybe the answer?

No, no, no. It goes much farther back than that.

It was those Satanists who tried to remove the Earth from its rightful place in the center of the universe that started it all.

Blame it on astronomy.

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