Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:32 pm
Ernst Mayr has a powerfrlul bias and I thinks he's a bit senile; he's around a hundred years old and says anyone who doesn't believe evolution is an idiot, I wouldn't listen to much he says.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Psalm 19:1)
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As Scott Adams has observed proponents of ID observing, scientists don't believe in evolution because what they are studying proves it (quite the opposite sometimes), they accept it because they were taught it's true, and they assume that others in other branches of science have found evidence for it.When I want my car repaired, I don't go to an accountant. Silly as it sounds, I have this idea that people who understand the subject are more likely to know it.
If he's saying things to you, it would be remarkable. He's dead.Ernst Mayr has a powerfrlul bias and I thinks he's a bit senile; he's around a hundred years old and says anyone who doesn't believe evolution is an idiot, I wouldn't listen to much he says.
Again no one was claiming it was evidence.Jbuza wrote:Yes, Bgood, IF only I could see clearly I would accept evolution, I know. He is caliming that being subjected to a bunch of biology courses, all of which will tell you that eovlution happened, that you will be more likely to believe evolution happened. There is nothing there. I am not arguing that it isn't true, I really don't know how all the biologists feel, but I am stating that it isn't even remotely worth considering as an evidence that evolution actually took place.
You know what I meant, in his book. I think it is What Evolution Is.Yehren wrote:If he's saying things to you, it would be remarkable. He's dead.Ernst Mayr has a powerfrlul bias and I thinks he's a bit senile; he's around a hundred years old and says anyone who doesn't believe evolution is an idiot, I wouldn't listen to much he says.
He was, however one of the greatest minds on philosophy of science. Trained formally as a biologist and a philosopher, he was unique.