[Vision2020] [Spam] Re: Animal Abusers, Welcome to Red Idaho!

[lfalen]

I agree Paul. Darwin was a scientist  who followed scientific principles and he was not an Atheist.

Roger
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From: Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:42:36 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Animal Abusers, Welcome to Red Idaho!

> heirdoug at netscape.net wrote:
> 
> >I just have to wonder if there is any direct correlation between the 
> >topic below and the teaching Mr. Gier espouses with respect to the 
> >human baby inside a mother not being a true person worthy of dignity. 
> >Or Mr. Gier's teaching that animals are the same as humans. Both of 
> >which he gleaned from the materialistic teaching of Darwinism.
> >
> >Ideas have consequences!
> >  
> >
> 
> The phrase "the materialistic teaching of Darwinism" annoys me.  Darwin 
> was not a mystic who gathered information from visions or by looking at 
> chicken entrails, and he was not a con man who thought up a system by 
> which he could make the world conform to his desires by brainwashing the 
> populous in some twisted, nefarious scheme.  He was a scientist.  He 
> observed nature, theorized about it, and made predictions based on those 
> theories.  Predictions which could be tested in the true scientific 
> fashion.  One big prediction of his, for example, was the existence of a 
> method by which information could be passed from parent to child.  He 
> didn't know what it would look like, but it had to be there or his 
> theory was bunk.  DNA nicely fits the bill.
> 
> Scientists follow the evidence.  The world is what it is, no matter what 
> they would like it to be.  If the conclusions of "Darwinism" are at odds 
> with faith, so be it.  If it teaches that Man is not really so different 
> from Animal, despite some book saying we are, that's the way it goes.  
> Scientists are engaged in a noble cause, the search for Truth.  They 
> shouldn't back away from a line of inquiry just because they don't like 
> the implications.  To do that would be cowardly.
> 
> Paul
> 
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