tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714546599403078772.post5198328895552322887..comments2024-02-16T04:38:27.816+00:00Comments on Principles of Parsimony: Censorship and incoherence: the classy way to lose an argumentBen Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430188441472807944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714546599403078772.post-14089855942306579772007-09-12T11:39:00.000+01:002007-09-12T11:39:00.000+01:00heather - You also have to wonder why they don't o...heather - You also have to wonder why they don't object to space travel, as the people ascending bodily apparently reached heaven when they got high enough. When your holy book is based on a 2000 year old understanding of the world, there's a lot of modern science you have to object to if you want to take it literally. I guess a lot of the objections to evolution are based on the simple 'I ain't no monkey!' yuk factor.<BR/><BR/>lim - He replaced the Dawkins claim with one misrepresenting Darwin's views: <I>In The Origin of Species, Darwin worried that Evolution was without sufficient proof, but held tightly to the belief that one day the fossil record would provide it.</I> Which would be a <A HREF="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part2.html" REL="nofollow">quote mine of Darwin</A>, had he only bothered to supply a quote to back it up.Ben Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01430188441472807944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714546599403078772.post-62245911325567969632007-09-12T09:58:00.000+01:002007-09-12T09:58:00.000+01:00Hey, he deleted my comment! Zenbullets claimed tha...Hey, he deleted my comment! <BR/><BR/>Zenbullets claimed that Dawkins wrote in his book (Ancestor's Tale?) that there is no proof for evolution, but Dawkins believes that the proof will appear someday.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't sound like Dawkins, so I wrote the comment.<BR/><BR/>He edited that claim out of his blog post too.The Key Questionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05426898630563791849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714546599403078772.post-11362628774556474052007-09-11T23:04:00.000+01:002007-09-11T23:04:00.000+01:00I read the original post and your very sensible co...I read the original post and your very sensible comments on it (hoping that there weren't many others that disappeared.)<BR/><BR/>I can't see why an acknowledgement of evolution has any necessary association with atheism, anyomre than the laws of thermodynamics have. I find it really hard to understand why theists see it as the one scientific theory that is a problem to them. Why don't they object to gravity, given that the bible has people ascending bodily?<BR/><BR/>At the same time, I am genuinely amazed that someone without a fundamentalist axe to grind can doubt evolution for a minute. I can only guess that this madness was posted by someone for a joke or to try to stir up a controversy.<BR/><BR/>As for falsifying the theory, that would be an easy experiment. Just find a species that thrives when it's badly adapted to its environment.... If people really doubt the truth of evolution, let them try to do that. :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com