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A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Evolutionists Should Acknowledge Creation (1997-12-04)
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I retreat from any formulation of tonight's exchange, Mr. Buckley begins, "that suggests that everyone on the other side should embrace creation. Not everyone on the affirmative side embraces creation. What we contend is that everyone should acknowledge creation as an alternative explanation for cosmic and biological happenings now thought by so many as naturalist in provenance and momentum." Mr. Lynn replies that "none of us on this team have any doubt that we have all been created somehow. Where we disagree with Mr. Buckley and his colleagues is on the relationships between evolution and our current situation." And we're off on a profound debate that ranges from the molecule to the cosmos, with distinctions that may be surprising to the layman (e.g., from Ms. Scott, between evolution and Darwinism: "Darwinism is evolution through natural selection")-and quite a lot of fun along the way: Mr. Berlinski: "The gravamen of your argument is the chordate." Mr. Kinsley: "Are people familiar with chordates?" DB: "Vertebrates. That's us." Ms. Scott: "No, chordates are the group in which vertebrates belong." Mr. Miller: "We're all chordates here, Mike."
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Southern Educational Communications Association
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public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Firing Line, Stanford University, evolution, creationism, natural selection, Darwinism, intelligent design, cosmology, biology, David Berlinski, Michael Kinsley, Eugenie Scott, Kenneth R. Miller, Barry Lynn
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