(March 18, 2014 at 5:42 pm)professor Wrote: The masters of evolution pulled a type of bait and switch on you.
Who exactly are the "masters of evolution"? Is this some kind of conspiracy to you?
Quote: The stuff of real science we do every day- we change a part in a machine, we test it, we take data, we review what we did (have you noticed the repeated word, "We").
Has been re-defined as evolution.
What is "real" science and what isn't? I know what the definition of a scientific theory is...do you?
Quote:Doing this (using the same word as their theory is called, gives a blending /fogging to the information in the little box of the mind labeled "origins" ).
Brilliant strategy though.
Has worked marvelously.
So...you do think this is some big conspiracy to dupe people? Why do you believe the Theory of Evolution is a scam when it has stood up to the scientific standards as, say, the Theory of Gravity? What is different about how scientists arrived at these two conclusions? Can you tell me why one is bunk and the other is sound when they have both been held to the same scientific standards?
Quote:By the way, on David Berlinski, yeah his phd is philosophy, but he is a post doc in math & molecular biology at Colombia.
Did you notice the word "Biology"?
I keep thinking of the black- robed priest doing his hocus- pocus ceremony, holding aloft the white wafer (looking identical to the sun-god of the Egyptians- but that is a topic for a different post) chanting some words over it, and presto- turning it into a god.
Creating a new word in the process: trans-.substantiation.
I...I have no idea what you're getting at here. Are you saying the Theory of Evolution is...like a religion? Because, well, that's just not true. At all.
Quote:So today, we have white robed secular priests pronouncing eons of time (from his time release magic capsule) and presto- the frog/fish, whatever turns into the tall prince.
To the delight of the participants and awe struck audience, the neo-magician got rid of that nasty accountability factor everybody hated and created a new feel- good aura.
What is not to like?
I...still don't know what you're getting at. Evolution makes people feel good, so they believe the "lie"? I don't see why anyone would choose evolution over magic if it was all about "feeling good".
Quote:Peer review? Sure- we'll take member of the audience and have them review any criticism of the whole thing.
How much fairer could one be?
Peer review is done by many different, knowledgable people and is one of the backbones of scientific discovery. Peer review isn't about patting each other on the back, and has many times shown flaws in scientific work. That's the beauty of it....flaws are discovered quickly so that the truth can come out. So far, no one has found ANY flaws in the basic Theory of Evolution. That's not a conspiracy. No one has found any flaws in the Theory of Heliocentrism, either. Truth will out.
If you want, you can give me some specific reasons why the Theory of Evolution is flawed. Otherwise, everything you just said is merely your opinion and is without merit.