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Re: The Fake Fossil (Was: Problems with Darwin's theory)
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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:

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

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

  LFB

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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  Re: The Fake Fossil (Was: Problems with Darwin's theory)
 
(...) 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. You are correct in my estimation that (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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