Re: Evolution Deniers

al wrote:
> "VoiceOfReason" <papa_fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1134496196.603615.157430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Grendel wrote:
> > > Beagle wrote:
> > > > Sorry if this has been raised before, but wouldn't it be better to
> > > > formally categorise IDers and Creationists in their many, somewhat
> > > > confusing forms as Evolution Deniers? And, yes, I know it echoes
> > > > Holocaust Deniers, because I think their intellectual honesty is on
> > > > roughly the same level, not to mention the ideological nastiness that
> > > > lies (very thinly masked) behind their antics.
> > >
> > > Evolution deniers (ED) are better EDucated
> >
> > Then why do they fail to exhibit any evidence of it?
> >
> > > and tend to think for themselves.
> >
> > Except where religion is concerned, in which case it's all about
> > believing what you're told to believe like a good little boy.
> >
> > > We choose not to believe in evolution and accept what real science (puts
> > > on the moon gives us computers science) says about how life and
> > > organisms work.
> >
> > You also blatantly lie about your reasons. Biology is real science -
> > hence modern medicine. Spacecraft and computers are engineering feats
> > *based* on science (and BTW, they tell us nothing about how life and
> > organisms work).
> >
> > You choose not to believe in evolution because it crosses into your
> > cult beliefs.
> >
> Has evolution been made compulsory?
> And no one told me.
> Do we no longer have the right to disagree with a theory?

Disagree all you like, but if you disagree with science for religious
reasons, don't expect anyone to take you seriously. Then again, if you
have a hypothesis that explains the evidence better than existing
theories, you'll have people's attention.

> Do we not have the right to present evidence to the contrary.

Certainly. As of yet, nobody has managed to present such credible
evidence, despite regular claims that it exists.

> What is being advocated in this thread is an abuse of basic human rights.
> Namely free speech.

You seem to be speaking quite freely at the moment.

> This NG is called talk.origins, with origins being the operative word.
> The only origins that are not shouted down or debunked is evolution.

It's attempted on a daily basis, with failed results.

> It may come as a shock to some but there are other ideas about origins that
> don't include evolution.

Such as the origin of man's soul? That doesn't require evolution. But
then, according to most Christians, the origin of our souls is not
incompatible with evolution either.

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