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Fence Post.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 28-FEB-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fence Post.(News)

Article Excerpt
ThereAEs no evidence

evolution is false

As a scientist I am obligated to respond to Dan TothAEs letter of Feb. 14 because it continues to propagate fallacies. The danger is that if these untruths are continually aired, people will begin to think that they are true.

The first fallacy is that there are two types of science: operational and origins. These are terms created by creationists to say some science is correct and some science is wrong. Scientists do not make this distinction because such a designation is untenable. For example, many of the new advances in medicine are rooted in the same science that is used to analyze evolution. Further, our understanding of the current world depends on how life and the universe evolved.

The second fallacy is that there is scientific evidence that evolution could not have occurred. Simply untrue. Intelligent Design concepts such as irreducible complexity, arguments involving the second law of thermodynamics and information theory, and others have been proven many times over to be false. These and many other false creationist claims are refuted at talkorigins.org/indexcc.

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