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Old 08-07-2007, 06:06 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
It's not just threatening to atheists, but to all reputable scientists and lovers of truth for truth's sake including academics like Orr and Kitcher who confess at least to hoping for existence of a God and hereafter. But it's only threatening if school boards want to teach it to children masquerading as science, which it clearly is not. Otherwise it's fine.
1. Some use natural selection as a way of denying the existence of God

2. Some use the claim that God was behind natural selection as a way of countering #1.

Both viewpoints are threatening to certain subpopulations.
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