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Teajay, your comments are absurd regarding faith and creationism. The scientific EVIDENCE, philosophical, mathematical, and lastly Theological evidence all point to the fact of creationism. Faith is not based on a lack of evidence, it is based on a preponderence of evidence.

Leading scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians virtually universally admit that the imperical evidence does not support their belief, hence the continued absurdity of ideas like 'punctuated equilibrium' and many other untenible ideas. The problem is college and highschool teachers teach as dogma, what cutting edge investigators have already debunked.

Evolution requires historical (that being the provision of large amounts of evidence) proof to support it because scientific proofs (that being observable, repeatable proofs) do not exist.

Science and faith are not mutually exclusive. It requires more faith to believe that material was made by eternal energy, or by nothing than by a God who exists outside the material universe!!!

Nrchy,
Five years ago I would not have even responded to your ignorant and misinformed statements regarding the scientifically based fact of Natural Selection as a valid explanation of the development and wonderful diversity of life on this planet. Now, I do respond in the public domain because individuals like yourself, regardless if you think your motivation is benevolent and tolerant, are eroding the separation of church and state in our culture.

Also, individuals like yourself are either ignorant of the overwhelming evidence accepted by the scientific community supporting Natural Selection or purposely misrepresent, for your own religious reasons, what the data shows to further your agenda of a god-centered universe. Of course, in any scientific endeavor there are healthy disagreements about some of the minute details in the overall valid theory or perspective. However, people of your elk choose to use these healthy disagreements as somehow disproving the overall fact of Natural Selection, along with taking the tesimony of a few crack-pot scientists with the right credentials who have NO status in the scientific community and are pushing their own religious agenda in a pseudo-scientific and disingenious way.

I completely and unconditionally accept that you have the right to any religious or pseudo-scientific philosophy that you want. However, to erode away in our public education system both the separation of church and state and ruining the quality of our scientific education in general is a great concern for all people who want to live in an open and progressive democratic society.

A final note is that the total hypocrasy and underhandedness of the people pushing Intelligent Design theory regarding that it has nothing to do with a religious diety was pointed out by the judge who ruled against it being taught in schools in Pennsylvania.

So...Nrchy, why don't ya move to Kansas where other enlightened thinkers like yourself who are pushing Intelligent Design theory in public classrooms will guarantee another generation of ignorant or ill-informed students who will not be able to think skeptically and compete with the other children of European countries, who by the way laugh at the Ameicans' difficulty with the acceptance of Evolution as a scientific fact, that guarantees that America will not be able to compete educationally and technologically in the future!

Not that I think you would choose to read it, but I highly recommend a book by Sam Harris titled The End Of Faith because in many ways it describes the kind of mind-set that you have that has eroded away some of the most important aspects internally of an open and free American society.

....see what you started Albert?! You're nothing but a trouble-maker!

Marco

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Nrchy,

No observable and repeatable evidence? How about Cancer? If the first treatments don't kill it all the lone surviror(s) begin re-produce and this will kill.

Also, try Avian flu.