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The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism
Sox2 writes "SciScoop is running a story about researchers in Germany who claim to have solved the "mystery" surrounding the evolution of the mamalian eye. The work, published in Science, goes some way to answering the issues raised in the "intelligent design" debate that has become the mainstay of creationist thinking."
My take is that creationism and evolution need to go hand in hand. Just think about how humans "create". Someone comes up with a good idea it becomes created! Then, others like it and create something very similar... not exactly the same but very close.. then successive evolutions happen. Remember it all comes down to : Mind | Body | Spirit and Cash -Jimijon
Mind | Body | Spirit | Cash
"Creationist thinking"? We have a new oxymoron of the highest order...
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You are so completely right, but you will probably be modded down the toilet for it. It's a shame, but the religious zealots (which most religious people are anyway, since it is a matter of unquestionable belief without proof) are in power, even here on Slashdot.
Creationism in science topics ??? This is anti-science ! Im not a a pro-global-conspiracy adept, but im almost certain that pushing this kind of stories is about the Bush administration ! They are a bunch of extreme-right-christain-baptist zealots !
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You're right. If someone believes that fairies from the 19th dimension push the planets and also paint the brown on toast, it would be rude to try to convince them otherwise.
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We Transhumans are going to eliminate your pathetic belief systems from the planet.
Go ahead, mod me down and put me in the corner again, asshole moderators.
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The whole issue of evolution vs. creationism and intelligent design is moot. The *real* issue is creationism and intelligent design vs. (neo)DARWINISM. Evolution does NOT require Natural Selection, only descent with modification; evolution != evolution by natural selection.
The Teory of Evolution != Darwinism. Even Darwin himself carified this! He (1) presented evidence for evolution, (2) proved it possible (artificial selection), and (3) proposed 1 explanation for evolution (natural selection, which was wrong, but that's not the main point). Natural Selection is but *one mechanism* hypothesised to explain evolution.
Nowadays, evolution is *fact*, and the evidence for evolution itself is absolutely incontrovertible. Evolution by *Natural Selection*, on the other hand, is at best a wrong theory, at worst but a myth: there is NO evidence for it, it has NEVER been put to any test, ever.
Check it: there is a lot of evidence, yes, and all evidence is for evolution, none for natural selection vs. other natural mechanisms.
There are other theories of how evolution work (which need no external intervention of gods, aliens, whatever!), but most are suppressed by the (so-called) "scientific" establishment, who of course act as High Priests of Science and will do anything not to have to face facts that would jeopardise the acceptance of ideas which are the only reason for their high-level and often undeserved luxury suites in the Ivory Tower. Just think M$ vs. Linux et al., and you get a pretty accurate picture of the situation in science. Bad Science sells; Pseudoscience also sells; good science is suppressed for a generation.
But the whole here issue hinges in the equivocal identification of Evolution with Darwinism. That is plainly not so. Just think clearly and the whole Evolution Controversy(TM) is very much defused.
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