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Re: The Fake Fossil (Was: Problems with Darwin's theory)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:37:03 GMT
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Bruce and Lindsay are both right.
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > > Note that I have a lot less truck with IDCers than I do with the woolyheaded
> > > > and freedom denigrating bunch of literal creationists. By gosh, if I am
> > > > going to be forced to pay for public schools I am darn well going to insist
> > > > that we don't confuse kids by presenting religious beliefs as well founded
> > > > science in them.
> > > >
> > > > ++Lar
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> > > Score one for the Libertarian viewpoint (on the theoritical level, at least).
> >
> > How is Larry's viewpoint necessarily Libertarian? Libertarians
> > can espouse good science, but espousing good science (and freedom)
> > is not necessarily Libertarian (though it can't hurt). :)
Agreed. Although I would argue that it's more likely in some systems than
others... (c.f. the wacky trait inheritance theories popular in the SovUnion
under Stalin which were there to please him, supposedly)
> > best
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> > LFB
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> I'm making the jump that this would not be an issue under Libertarian
> non-government schools. We'd have a bunch of scientific morons in the
> Creationist schools, which is why I say on the theoritical level.
Got it in one. And further you can argue that in the long run, since wacky
science is an anti-competitive trait... in a libertarian system, evolution
will tend to select against adherence to wacky science. :-)
(I want a society in which your merit and geekiness is the main
characteristic used by members of your preferred sex in determining
desirability of pairing... LOL)
++Lar
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