This is an atypical microcosm of society; I'm not talking about adults. The average age of our members is something like sixteen. Many kids come here to learn. If they read something stupid here and no one rebuts it, they'll probably think it's reasonable because after all this website has the word Science in its title. We have an obligation to them.
Propaganda:
Save the children from the ignorants.
"Where reason fails then social opprobrium will do."
"We have an obligation to them."
An obligation, the opposite of having a choice. Not subject to reasonable exchange, Not subject to thought but a duty- action only, a dictated predetermined response
"for the purpose of training-conditioning."
Previously, Fragglerocker, I would say that the purpose (not the obligation) of science was to teach.) This forum has shown differently. You support science as a....social caste system?
Conversion!
YES, conversion, indeed. Thank you swivel.
Fraggle, comparative fossil analysis and DNA aren't even the only two fields which support evolution and each other.
I aprrove of the word usage here. "support" as opposed to proved. Nothing proves evolution. As in a system of fact finding and discovery such as a court system, evidence which supports one theory can support another but note only definitive evidence, that which is a direct link, proves innocence or clinches a conviction.
This is where theory and reality diverge. From what you can prove away from the theoretical. Thus it is accurate to say that there is much support for evolution but no proof for the longer building of adaptation.
You're never going to "convert" an Evolution Denialist. Religionists by definition
Evolutionist-Uniformitarianist-Appologist
The suffix -ist is used to denote a person who either practices something or a person who is concerned with something or a person who holds certain principles, doctrines, etc.
believe in the supernatural--an unobservable universe external to the natural universe, in which the laws of nature and perhaps even the "universal" rules of logic do not apply, which contains creatures, forces and other phenomena which are able to affect the behavior of the natural universe--thereby contradicting the never-falsified and consistently supported underlying premise of science that the natural universe is a closed system
Grandstanding.
But also accurate.
. This is a deliberate and conscious violation of the scientific method, specifically the Rule of Laplace which demands extraordinary evidence before an extraordinary assertion becomes respectable. It unequivocally identifies these people as anti-scientific no matter how passionately they claim otherwise with their "evidence" of carefully selected fossils and poorly-reviewed theses from third-rate universities.
This exemplifies the realm of perception, an inaccurate perception. "Deliberate"- is perception, and irrelevant. The "violation" of the scientific method is perception. The non-compliance to the method is the logical description of the nature of all things that exist beyond the boundaries of the physical universe. Cause and effect are propperties of matter and energy. Anything extraneous will be subject to adjectives such as indefinite, infiinite and paradoxial. This includes any and all attempts to define the creation of the universe in anyway.
By the flawed definition offered, Science has attempted to "violate" the scientific method by attempting to define what is beyond cause and effect. In reality scientist have merely stepped beyond their "jurisdiction."
With no causal nature, observation is inexplicably handicapped.
