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"side"? "blunder"? |
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akg41470 |
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Feb 27, 08 - 5:04 PM |
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eolcott@triplo.com |
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"Great! Can we count on you to contact your fellow evolutionists in academia to notify them of their blunder?"
Blunder? Gee, talk about taking a misinterpretation about what I said and RUNNING with it... jeeez. Lighten up.
I assume you're referring to the connection with abiogenesis. Well, it seems that though there's some debate on whether or not it should be included as part of the argument or not - from WITHIN the scientific community:
From Pharyngula:
#15 is also a pet peeve: "Evolution is a theory about the origin of life" is presented as false. It is not. I know many people like to recite the mantra that "abiogenesis is not evolution," but it's a cop-out. Evolution is about a plurality of natural mechanisms that generate diversity. It includes molecular biases towards certain solutions and chance events that set up potential change as well as selection that refines existing variation. Abiogenesis research proposes similar principles that led to early chemical evolution. Tossing that work into a special-case ghetto that exempts you from explaining it is cheating, and ignores the fact that life is chemistry. That creationists don't understand that either is not a reason for us to avoid it.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/15_misconceptions_about_evolut.php
So hey - maybe PZ Myers is on "your side" too? |
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