Re: WHY IS THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION NOT THE "BASIS OF BIOLOGY"?

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:12:40 +0000 (UTC), in talk.origins ,
lamoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Larry Moran) in
<slrndih11o.d03.lamoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:08:02 -0400,
>raven1 <quoththeraven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 09 Sep 2005 15:16:05 -0700, "Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>raven1 <quoththeraven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> On 9 Sep 2005 09:03:28 -0700, "harunyahya" <harunyahya2011@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >One claim that is frequently repeated by evolutionists is the lie that
>>>> >the theory of evolution is the basis of biology... Those who put
>>>> >forward this claim suggest that biology could not develop, or even
>>>> >exist, without the theory of evolution.
>>>
>>>> Strawman. No one claims that.
>>>
>>>You've never heard, "Without evolution, nothing in biology makes
>>>sense?"
>>
>> Biology as a study has been around a lot longer than the TOE, so it's
>> a bit silly to claim it couldn't develop or even exist without it.
>
>Nobody claims that biology couldn't exist without evolution. The claim
>is that it doesn't make any sense without evolution.
>
I am willing to claim that biology couldn't exist without evolution.
That we did not know about evolution is irrelevant, the living things
could not help but evolve. And without that evolution there would not
be people to study them. So, while he is arguing against a strawman,
it is a pretty sturdy one.


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