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To: js1138
There was nothing in your citations/links that established that /evolution sprang from geology/

Your idea that evolutionary thought or theory sprang from geology is incomplete and inaccurate at best.

http://berkeley.edu/history/evothought

http://berkeley.edu/history/evotmline

http://www.geocentricity.com/ba1/no85/evolhist.html#_ednref3

http://queensu.ca/~forsdyke/evolutio

194 posted on 06/20/2008 8:05:45 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

What you posted is irrelevant to my statements. Go back and read what I said, and read the citations that I provided (at your request).

There were lots of previous thinkers who realized the fossil record indicated a succession of fauna. Only a moron could look at that evidence and fail to notice that there was a sequence of strata, identifiable by distinctive fossils. Many thinkers considered the possibility of multiple, successive creations. (How they reconciled that with the Bible, I don’t know.)

It was geology, particularly the work of Nicholas Steno and William Smith, that required a theoretical explanation, which Darwin and Wallace were the first to provide.


217 posted on 06/21/2008 11:55:58 AM PDT by js1138
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