[Osx-nutters] Denial

[David Cake]

At 2:36 PM -0700 16/8/07, mmalc crawford wrote:
>On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:09 AM, David Cake wrote:
>
>>	Again - scientific debate continues on details, actual
>>  scientific consensus on big question unlikely to chance.
>>
>Hasn't anyone mentioned evolution here yet?
>Maybe I did at some stage?

	I think it got mentioned at one stage.

>Unfortunately, Stefano is sounding very like one of the ID types who's 
>trying to say the whole Darwinian theory is wrong because biologists 
>are in disagreement about specific details, or because they revise 
>part of the evolutionary tree, or because a particular "missing link" 
>hasn't been found... I'm sure irreducible complexity will come along
>at some point...

	And its the whole basic PR vs science tactics in an nutshell. 
The PR method is that 10 poorly understood bad arguments are better 
than one good one. You can throw lot of doubt around that way, but it 
all turns to very little when you look at it hard.
	Cheers
		David