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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: The Godless to disprove God---Harvard to Prove Evolution |
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| Quote: | http://www.washingtonpost.com
Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Debate
The Associated Press
Sunday, August 14, 2005; 9:33 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.
The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years. The project begins with an admission that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.
"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention," said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.
The "Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative" is still in its early stages, scientists told the Boston Sunday Globe. Harvard has told the research team to make plans for adding faculty members and a collection of multimillion-dollar facilities.
Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years. It has been standard in most public school science texts for decades but recently re-emerged in the spotlight as communities and some states debated whether school children should also be taught about creationism or intelligent design.
The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation.
Harvard has not been seen as a leader in origins of life research, but the university's vast resources could change that perception.
"It is quite gratifying to see Harvard is going for a solution to a problem that will be remembered 100 years from now," said Steven Benner, a University of Florida scientist who is one of the world's top chemists in origins-of-life research.
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While they're at it (perhaps before lunch?), they might explain what existed just prior to the Big Bang. Interesting how the origins of life itself are characterized as a mere "problem" to be conquered by the application of appropriate research funding.
The intellectual arrogance of this undertaking is startling until you consider the source...but what else is new? Hopefully, as they continue their assault on the concept of a deity, they'll come face to face with their own insignificance. |
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blue9t3
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Im getting a little tired of the chicken-egg thing myself! 
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 Maybe, maybe they will figure out who hired Craig Livingstone and how the Rose billing records found their way into the White House reading room. 
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carpro
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: The Godless to disprove God---Harvard to Prove Evolution |
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| SBD wrote: | | Quote: | http://www.washingtonpost.com
Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Debate
The Associated Press
Sunday, August 14, 2005; 9:33 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.
The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years. The project begins with an admission that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.
© 2005 The Associated Press |
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Someone give me the million dollars and I'll solve the mysteries for them. Won't take 5 seconds or more than one word.
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Snipe
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I HOPE that this isn't another Federal grant...to study God.
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