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To: Doctor Stochastic
Here it goes, I took the word that did not belong out:

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse;. a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows."
From: Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"

Now you have no more excuses. And no, I man not going to post the whole Origins, or his complete works either. That is the definition of evolution from Darwin himself. That you and your friends object so strongly and call me names for doing so shows very well your total dishonesty and that you do not have a theory that is in any way defensible.

1,168 posted on 03/23/2003 8:55:27 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
You could have posted correctly the first and subsequent times. You only posted the correct version after repeatedly being told you were misquoting. This gives the appearance that you are trying get away with something.
1,171 posted on 03/23/2003 9:53:51 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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