Re: Talk.Origin banned Subject: Do not textbooks present evolution as fact?

"Nyehad Erebnyef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JaBrIoL) wrote:
>
> > "Many scientists succumb to the temptation to be dogmatic, over and
> > over again the question of the origin of the species has been
> > presented as if it were finally settled. Nothing could be further from
> > the truth. . . . But the tendency to be dogmatic persists, and it does
> > no service to the cause of science."-The Guardian, London, England,
> > December 4, 1980, p. 15.
>
> As a teacher, I would hope evolution would be taught just as all other
> scientific theories, which is as a conclusion come to through research,
> intellectual inquiry, and HARD, COLD, EVIDENCE.

Interpretation of hard cold evidence, is dependant on who making the
determination of the evidence. evdidence as you know may be interpreted
differently.


>
> Any good science teacher teaches his/her students that the information
> acquired by scientists is used to form theories about the world around
> us and that those theories are only valid if they can be tested and
> verified.  At best, evolution is a theory.  At worst, it's one of the
> biggest intellectual blunder ever made.  But in the absence of all other
> evidence to the contrary, it's the best theory going.


tell us exactly how evolution as the origin of man pass the scientific
method?
how is evolution tested? how is evolution as the origin of man verified?


>
> The original poster of this message never mentioned "creationism", a
> laughable topic if proposed as a scientific theory because it amounts to
> negating the very purpose of science by saying "God did it and that's
> all I need to know."

because creationism is not the topic. I am the origina poster, and I am not
a creationist. I don't beieve in mystical fairies and hocus pocus.. there it
is in 6 days.

Snip...............creationist bashing..   the subject is evolution as the
origin of man presented as a fact, when it can not even be verified.