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lhaw_en_edhel

wtffff

Oct 28, 2007 02:18

I cannot believe these people.

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idhren24 October 28 2007, 14:08:39 UTC

Sometimes I think they're not even speaking the same language. "teaching 'theory' as fact'...

The way they misled and mine-quoted the scientists they interviewed is exceptionally sleazy.

The whole thing reminds me of all the myths about 'gender differences' (girls 'wired' for language, boys for math and science). There's a great article in today's Globe's Ideas section which shows just how specious the support for these ideas are and some of the bizarre and inconclusive experiments that are used to 'prove' them.

imbrilim October 28 2007, 19:26:51 UTC

01. Did you know that Francis Crick at one point proposed and supported the theory of Panspermia, where the sperm of an extraterrestial species were placed on earth to allow evolution to begin?

02. We won't even go into James Watson.

03. I can see how the theory of evolution to be attacked in many areas, one of which is its heavy dependence on statistics. However, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is essentially what spawned the likelihood of life, and if scientists can make a compelling argument for their statistical measures, then yes. It's just that most of America is math-tarded and so explaining things like oh, chi-square tests is sort of beyond them.

04. Directly questioning Darwin is about as silly as questioning Newton's Laws of Physics or supporting Lemarck. There should exist scientific inquiry on whether the branches of evolution: phylogenetics, cladistic systeny, etc. are valid, but evolution, just as children take on the traits of their parents, just as the Dodo went extinct, is as much of a truth as gravity draws ( ... )