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[pat]

I used to have respect for the San Jose Mercury News. Not anymore.

Op-Ed piece in today's paper: The Controversy over Darwinism. I would dissect the piece for the trash that it is, but I am too disheartened by the fact that the Merc chose to print it that I don't have the heart.

I can't remember where I heard it, but I like the saying "Saying evolution is a theory is about like saying gravity is a theory."

I despair over my country: can we really have become so stupid in such a short period of time?

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[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's not quite right either. Gravitation is a phenomenon. Relativity and Newtonian Physics are theories explaining and describing the phenomenon we call gravity.

In the same vein, evolution is a phenomenon. You can't really argue the fact that species change and exchange new traits for old ones over time. You can actually watch it happening in simple organisms such as bacteria and virii. Natural selection is a theory explaining the phenomenon of evolution. You can say that evolution is a framework on which the current theories explaining the origin of life as it exists today are based, but you can't accurately say that evolution itself is a theory.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

You can actually watch it in much more complex, such as finches. (http://www.2think.org/tbotf.shtml)