Evolution...new poll
Oct 27th 2005, 10:05 pm
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by rushman
Religion told us that the sun and universe revolved around the Earth. Galileo found the truth and was persecuted by the catholic church for daring to say that the Earth revolved around the sun. Persecuted to the point that scientists of that period had to meet and discuss their beliefs and findings in secret to avoid punishment from the Pope.
I suppose religion was right then and is still right now?
I suppose religion was right then and is still right now?
Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?
Oct 27th 2005, 11:22 pm
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Shahlax
Not to be pedantic, but regardless of wingspan, they are still dragonflies! I am talking about transitional animals, something that is nearly a dragonfly but not quite. That is how evolution supposedly works.
Oct 27th 2005, 11:24 pm
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Re: Evolution...new poll
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Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?[/QUOTE]
Not that I recall. Which time period are you referring to? It was known that the earth was spherical in ancient Greece.
Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?[/QUOTE]
Not that I recall. Which time period are you referring to? It was known that the earth was spherical in ancient Greece.
Oct 28th 2005, 12:00 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Rompers
Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?
Oct 28th 2005, 12:17 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by rincewind
Yet unlike religion, science changes with the times
Oct 28th 2005, 12:19 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Rompers
I don't think it's fair to say religion hasn't changed. It's been a while since we had a good inquisition or witch burning
Oct 28th 2005, 12:32 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Sallyanne
...in our part of the world.
Oct 28th 2005, 1:25 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Rompers
History is littered with examples of people who arrogantly believe that their world view is right and persecute anyone who disgrees with it.
Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?
Didn't science once tell us the world was flat?
"If" science did initially claim that the Earth was flat, I think it also went some way to proving it wasn't with Newtons principle of gravity. I dont think that Columbus can be credited with discovering the earth was not flat because all he did was sail across the Atlantic, not circumnavigate the globe.
Oct 28th 2005, 1:31 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by rushman
not circumnavigate the globe.
Oct 28th 2005, 1:38 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by rushman
I wouldn't say that "science" told us that, I don't recall any "scientists" of that period claiming that. I think it was more of a general consensus.
"If" science did initially claim that the Earth was flat, I think it also went some way to proving it wasn't with Newtons principle of gravity. I dont think that Columbus can be credited with discovering the earth was not flat because all he did was sail across the Atlantic, not circumnavigate the globe.
"If" science did initially claim that the Earth was flat, I think it also went some way to proving it wasn't with Newtons principle of gravity. I dont think that Columbus can be credited with discovering the earth was not flat because all he did was sail across the Atlantic, not circumnavigate the globe.
The point I was making is that the the scientific consensus in one century can look pretty stupid by the next. I wonder which of our firmly held scientific beliefs will be getting laughed at by 5th grade pupils in a hundred years time. It isn't just religious leaders who make arses of themselves by claiming they know all the answers.
Oct 28th 2005, 2:17 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Rompers
It isn't just religious leaders who make arses of themselves by claiming they know all the answers.
Oct 28th 2005, 11:51 am
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by Rompers
I don't think it's fair to say religion hasn't changed. It's been a while since we had a good inquisition or witch burning
Oct 28th 2005, 1:59 pm
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Re: Evolution...new poll
Originally Posted by rincewind
Try living in Georgia
Don't make me try to defend every nut case cult or tribe. Thats no fair
