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Old 26-April-2006, 09:56 PM
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I am proud to call myself a Darwinist and have the Darwin Fish on the back of my car to prove it. I am also a Einsteinist, a Mendeleyevist (I believe in the Periodic Table of the Elements), a Maxwellist (Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism), a Lavoisierist (I believe combustion is from the chemical reaction with oxygen, not from the release of phlogiston) and many other "ists" too.
That's funny, because I was just going to say that I'm not an evolutionist or astronomist, a General Relativist, etc. I'm happy to discuss the science, or say "based on evidence, logic, and math I accept X" but I try to avoid the "ist." And "Darwinist" is just out. The science has come a long way since him anyway.

When a Creationist compares "Creationism" versus "Darwinism" or "Evolutionism" they are clearly trying to paint evolution as just another religion. But it isn't an "ism" and I'm not an "ist." There is science and that's it.
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I like the idea I am a Darwinist, an amateur astonomist, a heliochromologist , and a.....creationist. How many apples does that bounce out of the cart?
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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
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PBS/NOVA are doing a show addressing the Kitzmiller vs. Dover battle.

It airs on Nov. 13th, this Tuesday.
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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
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Jeebus! Shouldn't you have started your own thread on Small Media At Large? For a second I thought the judge's decision had been overturned!
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