(October 11, 2014 at 5:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: W. F. Albright was an early archaeologist. Almost everything he found he attributed to some biblical bullshit story. Still, everyone who writes a book on archaeology credits him for being a founder in spite of the fact that all of his theories have been dismissed as pseudo-religious horseshit.
Darwin is in the same boat. He was a founder and his theories have been augmented not overturned by modern scholarship.
Creatard morons notwithstanding.
Weeeeeeeellllllll, Darwin actually had a boat - Albright was floundering around.

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Science is not a subject, but a method.