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To: PatrickHenry
intelligent design” — the latest way in which creationists have sought to present a divine origin of the world — was thoroughly refuted by Charles Darwin a century and a half ago.

8-) I think Darwin thoroughly refuted himself a century and a half ago when he said that the theory of evolution would be disproved if the fossil record did not, in the century to come, show itself to be replete with transitional forms.

288 posted on 07/06/2004 9:02:46 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
8-) I think Darwin thoroughly refuted himself a century and a half ago when he said that the theory of evolution would be disproved if the fossil record did not, in the century to come, show itself to be replete with transitional forms.

If you had actually read Darwin's chapters on the geological record you'd be embarrassed to say that. But if you could be embarrassed you wouldn't be a YEC.

296 posted on 07/06/2004 9:14:38 AM PDT by VadeRetro (You don't just bat those big liquid eyes and I start noticing how lovely you are. Hah!)
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To: Aquinasfan
I think Darwin thoroughly refuted himself a century and a half ago when he said that the theory of evolution would be disproved if the fossil record did not, in the century to come, show itself to be replete with transitional forms.

A citation reference from On the Origin of Species would be nice.

387 posted on 07/06/2004 2:49:25 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (/"Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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