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To: mlc9852; Sofa King; ml1954
Well, seems like we have a choice here. Is it *A* or *B*?

*A* (Post 32)A specie becoming less adapted to it's environment (and not because the environment itself is changing faster than it can keep up).

*B* (post 124)There is no such thing.

But science is not done by popular vote, so there seems to be a problem here. How do we decide which is right?

126 posted on 05/09/2006 4:44:13 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; mlc9852; Sofa King

But science is not done by popular vote, so there seems to be a problem here. How do we decide which is right?

Picky, picky. Nice try, but not a very good one. 'Reverse' is the important word here. Reverse implies a direction with, *usually*, a negative connotation. If I reverse (or change) the direction my car is traveling in car to avoid an accident, however, it's not so negative.

A species becoming less adapted to it's environment is not a 'reversal', obviously. In fact, wonder of wonders, that's sometimes what drives a species to evolve into another species, or become extinct. And whether or not the former is and advance and the latter a reversal is a subjective human abstract construct.

138 posted on 05/09/2006 4:56:53 PM PDT by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads.)
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To: metmom

Both. I described something that doesn't happen, so there is, in fact, no such thing.


153 posted on 05/09/2006 5:37:57 PM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: metmom

How do we decide which is right?



It all depends on which "cracked skull"
they are looking at, at the time.


163 posted on 05/09/2006 8:13:18 PM PDT by WKB (Gal. 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.)
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To: metmom
How do we decide which is right?

Why... by following the edict that E Central puts out, silly!

168 posted on 05/10/2006 5:07:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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