macro-evolution

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3679ddb	"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.	evolution bisphenol-a bpa dr-jack-cohen-podiatrist excitotoxins fluoride man-made-global-warming manmade-global-warming minority-view monosodium-glutamate msg scientific-discovery scientific-inquiry scientific-process science scientific-research scientific-revolution majority scientific-theory minority consensus scientific-method global-warming majority-view september-11-attacks id macro-evolution macroevolution intelligent-design darwinism	Michael Crichton
a701edb	If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.	evolution science macro-evolution macroevolution darwinism	Charles Darwin
cac6115	"There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?"	science big-bang double-standards materialism id macro-evolution macroevolution intelligent-design religious-science-fiction darwinism theism theistic-science-fiction naturalism	Robert J. Sawyer
6712e49	If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?	evolution morality infidelity macro-evolution macroevolution social-darwinism survival-of-the-fittest theft darwinism natural-selection stealing	Robert J. Sawyer
71194de	But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.	evolution conclusion-before-evidence intermediate-forms missing-links fossils paleontology fossil-record macro-evolution macroevolution darwinism	Charles Darwin

3679ddb

"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

evolution bisphenol-a bpa dr-jack-cohen-podiatrist excitotoxins fluoride man-made-global-warming manmade-global-warming minority-view monosodium-glutamate msg scientific-discovery scientific-inquiry scientific-process science scientific-research scientific-revolution majority scientific-theory minority consensus scientific-method global-warming majority-view september-11-attacks id macro-evolution macroevolution intelligent-design darwinism

Michael Crichton

a701edb

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

evolution science macro-evolution macroevolution darwinism

Charles Darwin

cac6115

"There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?"

science big-bang double-standards materialism id macro-evolution macroevolution intelligent-design religious-science-fiction darwinism theism theistic-science-fiction naturalism

Robert J. Sawyer

6712e49

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

evolution morality infidelity macro-evolution macroevolution social-darwinism survival-of-the-fittest theft darwinism natural-selection stealing

Robert J. Sawyer

71194de

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

evolution conclusion-before-evidence intermediate-forms missing-links fossils paleontology fossil-record macro-evolution macroevolution darwinism

Charles Darwin