The truth of the matter is all the big scientist will admit that they know evolution is wrong, but will say we have to teach something.
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Name one. No, "Dr." Hovind doesn't count.
No respectable scientist will EVER say "well, we gotta teach something, let's go with this even though we know it's wrong". They will teach that we don't know yet. Unlike fundamentalist religious sects, science is entirely willing to admit it doesn't know something if it doesn't.
Only scientists who ignore the evidence would say this.
But if they did, they wouldn't be scientists then.
The very reason the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens came to be famous was their commitment to countering unfounded attacks on science from fundamentalist Christians. The above being one of their greatest lies, that scientists don't believe in it either but are using it to get rich. Projection at it's most hypocritical level.
Alright, savedandhappy1, if evolution isn't even partly true, and scientists don't really believe in it, then how do vaccinations work? After all, the idea was first pioneered in the 1700s, so the dreaded Darwin couldn't have been involved. Also, they have been shown to work against severe diseases like smallpox and polio, so they can't just be pseudoscientific flimflam. You could try to argue that they work through homeopathy, but then why do vaccines have to contain lesser or "disabled" forms of the disease they are meant to protect against? That doesn't jive with the base concepts of homeopathic medicine, which state that you need an unaltered sample of the actual contagion or poison to derive the cure from via dilution & succusion. The only other possibilities I can imagine would be that vaccines are actually either divine miracles or a diabolical counterfeit thereof, but then you'd have to explain why a group of people with access to such holy powers would then try to keep people from coming to the faith (if the former), or why people who've been vaccinated regularly can't be kept at bay with crosses and don't burst into flames on contact with holy water (if the latter).
Don't bring a proverbial knife to an intellectual gunfight, savedandhappy1 - just let it go.
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