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Meatros · Jan 27, 2004, 08:13 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (jpapadpapa,)
Also, Meatros, the percentage you gave is incorrect according to the site you linked to. It's 5% of scientists. While that is still not a majority, it is still a significant number when you consider that most of the media talks about evolution as though it were fact. Also, what the majority believes does not make something true or false, though human nature likes to conform, so we often simply accept what the majority says. I find that most truth in life is not accepted by the majority anyway. As I pointed out before, brilliant minds such as Einstein have been creationists. I find it a little hard to believe that Einstein would have accepted logic that "does not fit the 'Scientific Method'."<hr size="1" /></blockquote>

Read it again; one of the percentages is for earth and life sciences and the other is for all sciences.

It's truly not a significant number. Evolution is actually a fact adn I hope you aren't going to pull out that nonsense about it "being only a theory" because that will further demonstrate your inadequate knowledge of science (no offense).

Einstein, BTW, was *not* a 'creationist', he might have believed in "spinoza's God', but NOT a 6k year old earth and all.

In any event, why accept a physists opinion on biology? Do you go to your mechanic to get your teeth pulled?

<blockquote>Quote:<hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (jpapadpapa,)
As for your offer, Shunyadragon, to "submit individual examples of this bogus and selective use of scientific evidence upon request," I don't doubt that for every one of those examples, I could come up with my own from the other perspective. That does not prove anything except that some people make poor arguments. That does not disprove creationism. <hr size="1" /></blockquote>

The difference being that your interpretations would be grasping at straws at best.

Jan 27, 2004, 08:13 am	#109 (permalink) (top)
Meatros Molten Ash Posts: 41	</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (jpapadpapa,) Also, Meatros, the percentage you gave is incorrect according to the site you linked to. It's 5% of scientists. While that is still not a majority, it is still a significant number when you consider that most of the media talks about evolution as though it were fact. Also, what the majority believes does not make something true or false, though human nature likes to conform, so we often simply accept what the majority says. I find that most truth in life is not accepted by the majority anyway. As I pointed out before, brilliant minds such as Einstein have been creationists. I find it a little hard to believe that Einstein would have accepted logic that "does not fit the 'Scientific Method'."<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> Read it again; one of the percentages is for earth and life sciences and the other is for all sciences. It's truly not a significant number. Evolution is actually a fact adn I hope you aren't going to pull out that nonsense about it "being only a theory" because that will further demonstrate your inadequate knowledge of science (no offense). Einstein, BTW, was not a 'creationist', he might have believed in "spinoza's God', but NOT a 6k year old earth and all. In any event, why accept a physists opinion on biology? Do you go to your mechanic to get your teeth pulled? </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (jpapadpapa,) As for your offer, Shunyadragon, to "submit individual examples of this bogus and selective use of scientific evidence upon request," I don't doubt that for every one of those examples, I could come up with my own from the other perspective. That does not prove anything except that some people make poor arguments. That does not disprove creationism. <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> The difference being that your interpretations would be grasping at straws at best.