Re: The evolution of "evolution"

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 28 Sep 2005 - 12:29:42 GMT

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    "The Hopeless and the Pointless: What Would Darwin Say?"

    I think he'd say "I don't like this article".

    Really, Ted, if this kind of thing was just wrong, I'd be inclined just to ignore it, but you're giving ammunition to the creationists with your ill-informed slating of modern biology. In the "war on creationism", I propose you are court-martialled, sent to Lamarckano Bay and made to read Steve Gould's "Structure of Evolutionary Theory" right the way through to the end (including footnotes).

    At 21:04 27/09/2005, you wrote:
    >http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/controversies/Dace_evolution.htm
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    >Discusses the evolving meanings of "evolution" in the context of the battle
    >against creationism.
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    >ted
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