Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / July 2004

You know, Abraham Lincoln once asked,

 "If you call a dig's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?"

 "Five," came the answer.

 Lincoln smiled, "Nope, four. Calling a tail a leg, doesn't make it a leg."

You can insist that the earth is the center of the universe because to say
otherwise violates scripture (as Galileo discovered!), and you can insist
that evolution is false and some silly god created man 4000 years ago and
just made the world look very, very, very, very old simply to be
malicious -- but like the dog's tail, saying it doesn't make it so. The sad
part of all this, of course, is that Creationists and their fundamental
religious partners manufacture facts and amplify small voids or ambiguities
in this theory or that theory in order to deny evolution and justify their
belief in god. It is sad, because, even when they win, they fail. They fail
because if they must resort to distortion and deception and lies to
discredit evolutionary theory all they have won is what the 17th century
church won -- a victory for dogma in the defense of superstition and
scientific illiteracy.

Hence, it is a waste of productive time to even engage in this debate.

Earl

EarlCox
AUTHOR:
"The Fuzzy Systems Handbook" (1994)
"Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" (1995)
"Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds"
(1996, with Greg Paul, Paleontologist/Artist)
"The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 2nd Ed." (1998)
"Fuzzy and Evolutionary Strategies in Data Exploration and Modeling"
(due Early Fall 2004)

Uh huh... Who exactly said that this fossil was of a human femur? The
model next to the item was only barely similar. If this is supposed to
poke some sort of hole in some theory of science, it's a pretty poor
effort. Like all of the others I've come across.