Oh, you know creationists.
They'll just tell you that 'microevolution' is true but that doesn't prove 'macroevolution.'
Or that genetic engineering or selective breeding or (whatever other synonym for inducing the expression of certain genes over others) whatever isn't the same as natural evolution.
... or whatever BS they've cooked up.
Still, this is awesome news. Yesterday I learned that we may be on the verge of a cure for HIV due to an ape's natural immunity and now the worrying deaths of an exceptionally important member of the world's ecosystem may be possibly averted.
To quote Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park - "Life finds a way..."
They'll just tell you that 'microevolution' is true but that doesn't prove 'macroevolution.'
Or that genetic engineering or selective breeding or (whatever other synonym for inducing the expression of certain genes over others) whatever isn't the same as natural evolution.
... or whatever BS they've cooked up.
Still, this is awesome news. Yesterday I learned that we may be on the verge of a cure for HIV due to an ape's natural immunity and now the worrying deaths of an exceptionally important member of the world's ecosystem may be possibly averted.
To quote Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park - "Life finds a way..."
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
