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To: DannyTN
There is no possible scenario about which you cannot hypothesize, one thing evolved from another thing.

False. We have an established evolutionary scenario. Say, in the case of vertebrates it would be fish to amphibians to reptiles. One reptile branch (synapsids) gives rise to mammals. Another (diapsids) gives rise to dinosaurs and birds. Mammals and birds diversified along a certain scenario.

There are some uncertainties, some play, in the scenario, but there are things which evolution does not explain if they ever turned up. You can't have a seemingly direct amphibian-bird transitional, or amphibian-mammal, or bird-mammal, or fish-mammal. These things are flatly stated to have never existed.

Thus, for instance, we KNEW to look for land animal ancestors of whales even though they live in the water among fish and are basically shaped like fish. A separate mammalian evolution in water for cetaceans directly from fish was obviously false. Sounds trivial, now, but creationists scoffed right up until Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rhodocetus, etc. were found. Now they have to lie about what they're able to understand. Sad. God shouldn't tell people to behave badly in public. You'd expect the creator of Heaven and Earth to refrain from malicious mischief.

Evolution says some things (which further outline the tree of life) must once have lived. In fact, we make new finds of those and only those things.

Thus, evolution is potentially falsifiable but it's late in the game for the falsifications to turn up if evolution were indeed false. It should have happened a long time ago and it hasn't. Thus, the game is over in real science and evolution has been accepted for over a century.

Creationism scoffs "Where are the missing links?" but swears it means nothing every time we fill another one. This is trying to have it all ways.

So, yes, your "science" predicts everything and nothing and is as worthless as the effort of correcting the falsehoods of back-again-dumb-as-a-stump creationists. The same thing is NOT at all true of evolution.

184 posted on 02/03/2005 12:25:10 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
"Sounds trivial, now, but creationists scoffed right up until Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rhodocetus, etc. were found."

SCOFF!!! We are still scoffing.

The overselling of whale evolution

186 posted on 02/03/2005 1:16:50 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: VadeRetro

"Creationism scoffs "Where are the missing links?" but swears it means nothing every time we fill another one. This is trying to have it all ways."

Actually, every time we find a "missing link" creationists say that creates two more gaps. ;-)


211 posted on 02/03/2005 3:36:41 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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