Advancements in scientific education require the honest admission that Darwin was wrong.
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Wrong about what, fuckstick?
C'mon, tell us all you know.
(or have you?)
Scientific education never claimed that Darwin was 100% right about everything he said. However, it verifies that most of what he came up with regarding evolution by natural selection is, in fact, correct, and that this portion of general evolutionary theory has withstood a century and a half of careful observation and ingenious experimentation by scientists (and a century and a half of fallacies, duplicity, and bald-faced lies by fundies).
~David D.G.
That is nothing compared to the other comments on the same article. They're rehashing the same old arguments, from the Paluxy river tracks to the hoax fossils to the ol' "If humans evolved from monkeys, there would be no more monkeys today" argument.
Scientific truth isn't the same as the religious truth they are looking for. A scientific theory isn't "right" or "wrong" - it's a "better" or "worse" fit for the data. Darwin's theories as articulated by him aren't really in use anymore because people have been investigating and refining those theories for a century and a half.
Darwin wasn't right or wrong, but he was on the right track. And until you can wrap your mind around that distinction, all of your statements about science will be total failure.
If Darwin is proved wrong, scientists will admit it. Note though, that Genesis has already been proved wrong; so even if Darwin is wrong, the Genesis theory won't replace it.
No, no. Come on now folks, I think we should give Dom his chance. In fact, let's be generous. Let's not just throw out Darwin, let's throw out the entire theory of evolution and the influences it has on other scientific fields. Now Dom- floor's all yours- let's see the direction you propose we take science in:
Geology: Goddidit.
Chemistry: Goddidit.
Astronomy: Goddidit.
Archeology: Goddidit.
Biology: Godmadeit.
Medicine: God will heal you if you have sufficient faith.
Meteorology: That tornado destroyed your home because you are teh ghey.
That's the thing about science; when something is wrong, the community will admit it (slowly, but it will). If repeated observations and experiments defer from the hypothesis, then the hypothesis must be problematic.
However, multiple observations have proved Darwin RIGHT, at least the core of the theory of evolution. Details is his papers have been proven wrong, but the core of the theory is so far intact and when compared with Genesis, is by far the better candidate in explaining our origins.
You might wanna run that one by someone in the biology field, since, y'know, evolution is kinda the cornerstone on which it was founded...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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