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To: Fester Chugabrew; Virginia-American
[They need to learn well-established facts and theories.]

Among which the arbitrary human construct of "natural selection" as responsible for a biological history from amoeba to man is not to be counted.

Completely false. The reality of natural selection, and its involvement in "biological history" has been established literally hundreds of thousands of times over.

And if you think that natural selection is just an "arbitrary human construct", try to outrun a lion sometime.

Why don't you go learn something about biology before you attempt to critique it again?

552 posted on 03/12/2006 5:15:36 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
And if you think that natural selection is just an "arbitrary human construct", try to outrun a lion sometime.

The physical capacity for a lion to overtake a human could just as easily be ascribed to intelligent design as it could be ascribed to some natural force made up from imaginary whole cloth. Natural selection is typically employed as a post facto explanation that could cover anything from a flip of the coin to virtually any reality. It does not belong in the realm of hard, empirical science, but in the realm of philosophical musings upon history.

581 posted on 03/12/2006 1:42:08 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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