Comments on: Common Misunderstandings http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/ ramblings of a fetal biologist Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Porter http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/#comment-863 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:07:45 +0000 http://adamcoster.com/?p=77#comment-863 I’m not sure how likely it is that you’ll actually read this comment, but I wanted to respond because I thought you might be interested. I am the same Kevin Porter that you rebutted with your blog series here, I guess it was three years ago. I wanted to tell you that I was wrong.

It’s a fairly long story, and I don’t suppose the details are all too important, but I thought it would be gratifying to know that you had an impact on my then (and often still) ignorant mind. Over the years since I posted all the religious and pseudoscientific information on my blog, I have gone from right-wing Christian creationist to a nearly-socialist atheist. And I now accept evolution as the fact that it undoubtedly is.

I owe you a “thanks” for the time you spent chinking away at the stone wall that had been built that prevented me from reasoning. Between you and others, I was among the relative few who actually get to see the light that is scientific understanding. You might feel that this is blown out of proportion, but Adam, you really were the first person that made an effort to help me think. Thank you.

]]> By: Adam Coster http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/#comment-77 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:09:42 +0000 http://adamcoster.com/?p=77#comment-77 Thanks for the info Ken!

]]> By: Ken http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/#comment-70 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:04:36 +0000 http://adamcoster.com/?p=77#comment-70 Chardin’s idea conflicts with science because his idea is teleological – he suggests that evolution has a goal.

]]> By: Adam Coster http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/#comment-64 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:22:16 +0000 http://adamcoster.com/?p=77#comment-64 I’m not familiar with that person. I’ll check out the links and try to respond; thanks for the question!

]]> By: eurobraskan http://adamcoster.com/2008/04/02/common-misunderstandings/#comment-63 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:31:47 +0000 http://adamcoster.com/?p=77#comment-63 Speaking of evolution and religion, I’ve never understood why the work of the Jesuit anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is such heresy. What part of Teilhard’s theory violates how science in general actually works?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/teilhard.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin

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