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To: Physicist
...it tests whether the subjects reject the evidence (common descent), rather than just the interpretation (natural selection)

Sorry, the notion of universal common descent (of every organism from a single, or few putative ancestors, including human from earlier non-human ancestors) is not evidence, it is an interpretation of evidence. Explanations are not evidence.

Cordially,

125 posted on 04/19/2006 8:11:50 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Diamond

See #120
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1617533/posts?page=120#120

Also see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1617533/posts?page=96#96

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617533/posts?page=11#11


131 posted on 04/19/2006 8:18:29 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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To: Diamond
Sorry, the notion of universal common descent (of every organism from a single, or few putative ancestors, including human from earlier non-human ancestors) is not evidence, it is an interpretation of evidence.

By that standard, a film can never constitute evidence of motion. Motion would only be one interpretation from what is, ultimately, just a series of still photographs.

161 posted on 04/19/2006 9:04:20 AM PDT by Physicist
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