Re: Evolution is Dying in U.S. Schools


Richard Dawkins wrote:
> "Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:87acfzrtrz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > "Richard Dawkins" <Dawkins@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> > We are now in a position where we are behind the South Koreans
> >> > (the South Koreans, mind you!) in genetic research and understanding.
> >> > When they (and the Indians, and the Chinese) start curing diseases
> >> > using
> >> > science principles that you and your ilk convinced a generation of
> >> > schoolkids didn't work and wasn't worth studying, and they start
> >> > draining our coffers as we go to *them* for cures, maybe you'll get off
> >> > your knees.
> >
> >> Pardon my need for finding lucidity in that post, but what does this
> >> have to do with you calling me a hater of America? I suggest you
> >> reread the post once more to see the fallacy that you've presented
> >> yourself with.
> >
> > I think it should be obvious: evolutionary theory leads to
> > viable biological sciences. Take a look at the other post I made today,
> > "The Utility of Evolutionary Theory," in which biologists looking at an
> > incredible number of possible protein receptors used the evolutionary
> > principle of descent with modification to narrow it down to a single
> > possibility, something they could not have practically done with any
> > other principle. If we in the U.S. had eschewed evolutionary theory,
> > then the next generation would be paying the Koreans, the Indians, or
> > whatever-- those nations where evolutionary theory is
> > non-controversial-- for those drugs.
> >
> > You hate America's schoolkids.
>
> I love America's schoolkids.
> You are a loon did you realize that yet?
>
> You want to condemn them to
> > being the salwes of other countries.
>
> Delusional repetoire on your part
>
> The next big revolution will be in
> > the biomedical sciences, and yet here you are trying to undermine the
> > very principles that inform those sciences.
>
> Are you sick?
>
>
> > You are a faithless destroyer of hope, Dawkins. You hate
> > America and all it stands for. In service to your ideology, you would
> > see Americans clapped in the chains of economic servitude.
> >
> > Elf
>
> This post is a joke right?

I don't think so. --Dylan

> For the sake of your mental stability one should hope so.

No comment.

.

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