Blog Against Theocracy: Cosmos Clip #2
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In today's Cosmos clip, Carl Sagan asks, and answers, an esoteric but powerful question:
Who "intelligently designed" Japanese crabs?
Evolution is a fact, not a theory. The theocrats who abuse the word "theory," replacing its proper scientific denotation with the uninformed populist connotation of "guess" are engaging in the same form of insolent intellectual fraud that underlies so much of organized religion. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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Meanwhile, here's another tale — more indelicate than Sagan's — about humans, crabs and evolution. (See also this post.)
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Evolution is a fact, not a theory. The theocrats who abuse the word "theory," replacing its proper scientific denotation with the uninformed populist connotation of "guess" are engaging in the same form of insolent intellectual fraud that underlies so much of organized religion. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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Meanwhile, here's another tale — more indelicate than Sagan's — about humans, crabs and evolution. (See also this post.)
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Related Posts (on one page):
- Blog Against Theocracy: Cosmos Clip #3
- Blog Against Theocracy: Cosmos Clip #2
- Blog Against Theocracy: Cosmos Clip #1
Posted by Kip on
7 April 2007
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