Matt and Elizabeth Wittemann's electrons arrived as:

>At the risk of rousing the ire of the orthodox evolutionists, allow me to
>suggest just one title that is necessary reading for anyone with a sincere
>desire for scientific truth, a book that presents scientific evidence
>unbiased by religion.

Matthew -

The book doesn't matter to this issue.  There is no question that as
science progresses it reveals how much is yet to be known about the
workings of life, this planet, and the cosmos beyond it.  It should come
as no surprise that Darwin's basic observations, while being validated
over and over by different testable scientific disciplines, have also led
to further unanswered questions as evolution's complexities have
unfolded.  This is simply the way science works.  The proportion of what
is unknown seems to expand exponentially to what is found out.  Isn't it
wonderful?

But to take the gaps in our knowledge and use them as inverted evidence
for an apriori conclusion, i.e., that since we cannot explain everything
about biological evolution, it is therefore credible that the universe
could have been created supernaturally by a deity, is not science.  It is
a bastardization of scientific method, a desperate attempt to misuse
science in service of a fervent ideology -- religious belief.

If museum professionals take seriously their role as educators, they will
present science as science -- a particular methodology and a continuum in
which there are things which are known and tantalizingly unknown, and
they will refuse steadfastly to allow their science programs to be
co-opted as religious propaganda.

Stephen Nowlin
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