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Subject: You old softy.

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Wade A. Tisthammer

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Date Posted: 08/12/04 5:43pm
In reply to: Damoclese 's message, "That's simply science" on 07/16/04 8:31am

>> Again, if this was really a hard science, I think
>>these kinds of mistakes wouldn't have persisted this
>>long.
>
>That doesn't really follow. Hard sciences are riddled
>with mistakes in thinking that persisted for
>centuries. Would you say that physics is not a hard
>science?

But this is a tad different. We have direct empirical knowledge of the fossil at hand. My point is that if this were really a hard science, they should have known right away (not decades later) once it was examined that Piltdown man was a hoax (a combination of ape and human parts).

>A mixed skullcap and jawbone of a human and an
>>ape for over forty years? You have to admit that's
>>not a good sign. Now maybe the current collection of
>>bones (which is not very much) is different, but given
>>the track record I have yet to be convinced. I think
>>it's only a matter of time before the current accepted
>>versions are abandoned.
>
>Science is a field that changes and aspires to higher,
>better explanations of what the data indicate.

You betcha. And I have little doubt that if the research continues, those alleged intermediate forms will eventually be renounced as well.

>Creationism on the other hand, is static. It doesn't
>change

That's not true at all. It has changed quite a bit.

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Subject	Author	Date
Harding Place	Damoclese	08/15/04 11:56am
A rock...quite a bit more stable than hominid fossils -- Wade A. Tisthamjmer, 09/13/04 12:09am