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To: PatrickHenry

I don't understand 4 and 5.

On 4, the timing of when creatures are created appears to me to have nothing whatsoever to do with their genetic code.

On 5, one could argue that if fossils from two species, such as humans and dinosaurs, were found together, that would argue against the Theory of Evolution, but I don't see how one could argue that in order for creation to be true one would have to find any possible combination of species. There are millions or species, so having any possible combination would require quadrillions of fossils.


20 posted on 07/23/2004 3:37:50 PM PDT by TomEwall
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To: TomEwall
On 4 [ There must surely be at least one species, and probably several, having no genetic similarities with any other life on earth.], the timing of when creatures are created appears to me to have nothing whatsoever to do with their genetic code.

In evolution theory it does. Your genetic code is derived from your ancestors. But if you were specially created, and not a product of common descent, your genetic code could be utterly unrelated to that of any other creature.

On 5 [The fossil record must show all kinds of species (such as dinosaurs and humans) living together at the same time.], one could argue that if fossils from two species, such as humans and dinosaurs, were found together, that would argue against the Theory of Evolution, but I don't see how one could argue that in order for creation to be true one would have to find any possible combination of species. There are millions or species, so having any possible combination would require quadrillions of fossils.

I don't mean that you would need to find them all in one limestone quarry. Just that those we regard as modern (such as mammals) should be sometimes found in the same rock stratum as those we belive existed millions of years earlier, before mammals evolved.

21 posted on 07/23/2004 4:15:53 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (#26,303, over 189 threads posted, and somehow never suspended.)
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