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To: B.Bumbleberry
It becomes apparent that these same anti-evolution arguments, and a lot of others besides, really are old, going back in some instances over a 100 years.

That the arguments are old does not mean they are false. In fact the argument against evolution goes back to Aristotle:

It was on the whole the former tendency (the tendency to perceive nature in discontinuous terms) that prevailed in early modern biology. In spite of the violent reaction of the astronomy, physics, and metaphysics of the Renaissance against the Aristotelian influence, in biology the doctrine of natural species continued to be potent - largely, no doubt, because it seemed to be supported by observation.
From: Lovejoy "The Great Chain of Being", pages 227-228 as quoted in Denton, "Evolution: A theory in Crises", page 354.

36 posted on 01/12/2003 6:23:38 AM PST by gore3000
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A very few links from the famous "list-o-links" (so the creationists don't get to start each new thread from ground zero).

01: Site that debunks virtually all of creationism's fallacies. Excellent resource.
02: Creation "Science" Debunked.

The foregoing is just a tiny sample. So that everyone will have access to the accumulated Creationism vs. Evolution threads which have previously appeared on FreeRepublic, plus links to hundreds of sites with a vast amount of information on this topic, here's Junior's massive work, available for all to review:
The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [ver 20].

38 posted on 01/12/2003 6:28:29 AM PST by PatrickHenry (PH is really a great guy!)
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