They can believe what they want, but that doesn't make it true. Same goes for evolution. But still, I believe in evolution, since it's a very good theory. Many people are against evolution, because it forces them to see themselves as animals, and for some reason, they find this thought repulsing. Just because you are an animal, doesn't mean that you are a savage or a damn dog.
TheTerribleFish
Belief doesn't make something true; consistent empirical evidence does.
Seriously though, there probably isn't anything, as height is controlled by the pituitary gland in the brain, which moniters the rate of mitosis cell diviosion. You would have to find a way of changing the amount of hormone it releases, something science is currently unable to do.
Thanks for the links, nuke, the funniest things I've read all day. Why is the top one there? it has nothing to do with intelligent design; it's just a rant against Dawkins. I've covered irreducible complexity already, which leaves the one about radioactive decay.there is no agument against whythere isthe coherence among many different dating methods pointing to an old earth and life on earth for a long time - for example: radioactivity, tree rings, ice cores, corals, supernovas - from astronomy, biology, physics, geology, chemistry and archeology? These methods are based on quite distinct fields of inquiry and are quite diverse, yet manage to arrive at quite similar dates. (This is not answered by saying that there is no proof of uniformity of radioactive decay. The question is why all these different methods give the same answers.)
Dude, this would work really well as an allegorical short story about the conflict between science and religion. protectors equal religion; people who want to explore equal science.
"Theory" has two meanings: a synonym for a hypothesis, or in a scientific context, a hypothesis that has been backed up by empirical evidence and withstood years of attempts at destruction. As evolution is clearly the latter, it is as much of a fact as gravity.
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