Tsk, tsk, tsk ...
"The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its power every day, contributing crucially to the explanation of planet-sized facts of geology and meteorology, through middle-sized facts of ecology and agronomy, down to the latest microscopic facts of genetic engineering. It unifies all of biology and the history of our planet into a single grand story. Like Gulliver tied down in Lilliput, it is unbudgeable, not because of some one or two huge chains of argument that might - hope against hope - have weak links in them, but because it is securely tied by thousands of threads of evidence anchoring it to virtually every other area of human knowledge. New discoveries may conceivably lead to dramatic, even "revolutionary" *shifts* in the Darwinian theory, but the hope that it will be "refuted" by some shattering breakthrough is about as reasonable as the hope that we will return to a geocentric vision and discard Copernicus.
The evidence of evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy (Darwin's chief sources), but from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant - inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. Doubts about the power of Darwin's idea of natural selection to explain this evolutionary process are still intellectually respectable, however, although the burdern of proof for such skepticism has become immense... "
Daniel C. Dennett _Darwin's Dangerous Idea_ (1995) http://www.ediacara.org/dennet.html
"Je ne me sens pas menacé non plus mais j'aimerais bien savoir. Vous croyez que je doute de l'évolution naturaliste à cause d'un quelconque préjugé philosophique ou religieux, n'est-ce pas ?"
Je n'écarte pas l'hypothèse. Je ne vous sens pas comme Julien ou Alain-le-raëlien en mission évangélisatrice, mais je suis surprise que vous accordiez du crédit à des prozélytes biblistes comme Johnson, qui font autorité chez les moutons crédules partisans du créationisme biblique littéraliste. Si vos objections à la TdEv sont fondées sur des raisons autres que philosophico-religioso-feelingo-personnelles, avancez-les, argumentez-les, soutenez-les, ne vous contentez pas de reprendre la propagande religieuse. Ca évitera qu'on vous jette dans le même panier (à linge sale).
"J'ai l'impression de me répéter.-)"
Simplement parce que vous n'avez rien dit, ce qui force à réitérer les questions.
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