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Dear folks,
I agree that one of our goals is to encourage people to look at the
world around them with a critical eye, but it is not my goal to convert
anyone to my belief system. In my eyes a victory would look more like
having a man of deep faith look at the mechanics of evolution and
struggle to find ways to mesh observations with his faith, rather than
crushing that same man under a mountain of facts from the fossil
record.
Thanks,
- Len
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Len Adams
Origins Project Supervisor
Pacific Science Center
Seattle, WA
206/443-3652
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On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:35 AM, martin weiss wrote:
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>>
>> I am very surprised that anyone would NOT see this as a perfectly
>> good venue for discussing evolution. After all, is it not our goal
>> to help people understand the world around them? Don't we represent
>> currently held thinking based on the latest research? Charlie makes a
>> valuable point that there is a serious misunderstanding of what a
>> theory is. Doesn't that seem to imply that we collectively as a
>> field need to push toward programming that emphasizes an
>> understanding of HOW research is done as opposed to just WHAT is
>> being done?
>> Beryl
>>
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> Beryl;
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> I think the problem is not in an understanding of how scientist use
> the word theory as apposed to how lay folks use the word. But the
> problem is a different way of seeing the world and belief systems
> that suport this view: faith based and science based (testable).
>
> Martin
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