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My question Anderson, James Sep 03, 2005

Have you figured out how to make worms from cheese yet?

Let me know when 'spontaneous generation' becomes testable and repeatable. Until then it's not REALLY science, is it?

"Our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective "scientific method", with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots is self-serving mythology."
--Stephen Jay Gould

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My question TalkReason , Sep 03, 2005

We have posted the letter by James Edward Anderson as an illustration of what kind of "critique" of evolution is somtimes suggested as an alleged argument by some critics who, rather than asking such questions, might rather try some introductory course on
evolution.

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My question Elphick, Michael Sep 07, 2005

How to make a worm from cheese. First select your cheese: this should be malleable, but not too soft. Take a quarter ounce and roll it into a ball; put this on a flat surface and placing your palm over it, move your hand back and forth so as to roll it out into a cylinder. Take a pencil and push sockets for eyes etc. and make other adornments that look pleasing: - you now have your worm.

To prove the Theory of Evolution, which as everybody known needs time, you can evolve your worm into a caterpillar! Place it in a warm place (where a mouse can't get it) and after a week behold: the worm has evolved hairs and I do believe you should be able to see some tiny feet! Leave it longer and it might crawl away, depending on the strength of cheese you selected.

If it does not run off, it will eventually turn into a fossil - hard and stone-like; demonstrating that you don't need a flood for fossilisation to occur.

I agree totally with your quote from Stephen Jay Gould (it's a statement that is quoted ad infinitum by anti-evolutionist groups), but it is meant to apply to ALL sciences, not just biology. Perhaps you know this, James, as to deny evolution you have to deny the findings of practically every scientific dicipline.