[net.origins] Let's have scientific evolutionism t

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (08/12/84)

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uokvax!emjej    Aug 11 19:52:00 1984

Sigh. The existence of argument about how speciation occurs is *not*
evidence that the theory of evolution is full of holes. It is evidence
that scientists are at work. In religion, disagreement is thought a
bad thing; disagreement (along with a verifiable way to settle matters)
is what propels science. (Indeed, in that respect, if one could really
make the charges of the creationists stick, one's name in the history
of science would be assured, along with probable fame and wealth--do
you really suppose that all biologists are involved in a conspiracy
to suppress creationism?)

Please give references on the lawyer (the local creationist here is an
engineer; would you go to a biologist with an engineering problem?).
*The Monkey Business* (name of author forgotten, alas, but retrievable
on request) and *The New Apocrypha* (author John Sladek) contain
samples of biologists being quoted out of context concerning alleged
statements about supposed flaws in evolution, so I wish to gather
information from its source.

(The rhetorical question above is not to be taken as implying that a
professional X can't know anything about Y.)

						James Jones