Thanks for the overview of a very interesting subject...
Peace
>>> As stated today in a letter in the NY Times, "[t]he existence of God
>>> isSa theory. [The evolution] theory has libraries full of supporting
>>> data, while the other lacks a single verifiable fact in support."
>> Urban legend. When you look at this "data," you find all manner of
>> hocus-pocus going on. Evolution is as much faith and religion as any
>> other religion on the planet. It was never about science.
> All you're saying is that you don't know anything about science or the
> scientific method. The thing that Darwin lacked to prove his theory were
> the Mendelian theories which weren't widely published or recognized until
> the 1900s some 35 years after Darwin's first studies and many years after
> his death in 1881. While Gregor Mendel died in 1884 - his works were not
> widely known until the 1900s. Many theologians vigorously attacked
> Darwin's ideas though they knew nothing about biology, less about genetics
> and nothing about Mendel's studies that would explain much of Darwin's
> conjectures. Once the theologians rejected Darwin's works, they were fond
> of repeating what had been written in the past and were loathe to
> investigate new developments as they were revealed. The above does not
> include Catholic and Jewish scholars who readily accepted the scientific
> explanations regarding Darwinism as they were revealed. Darwin's _Origin
> of the Species_ published in 1859 caused little furor among the
> theologians, but his _Descent of Man_ published in 1871 caused a major
> upheaval in the world of theology as well as among traditionalist scholars
> at that time. Of course modern discoveries such as DNA have solidified
> Darwin's theories in spite of the fact such advancements are ignored by
> fundamentalist theologians who continue to repeat arguments written by
> naysayers prior to the wide acceptance of Mendel's studies. Of course the
> major logical fallacy of theologians is that they fail to see that perhaps
> the Supreme Being chose evolution as His method of creation. Evolution was
> perhaps the greatest conflict between science and theology since the
> publication of the works of Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho
> Brahe. For more on Darwin see:
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