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To: Boiler Plate
Your handful of fossils can hardly constitute a lineage of avain evolution.

What is the threshold number of avian dinos and reptilian proto-birds before BP accepts evolution? How many are you aware of, now? Are you sure that there aren't already as many as you might demand? Is anyone supposed to believe that your problem is with some numerical preponderance of evidence?

I am totally amazed at how readily you accept these explanations without question.

I am totally amazed at how you reject all evidence for evolution without having a shred that anything except evolution has happened, or even a defensible theory of your own.

Vade, all science is open for debate.

How about your PV = nRT example? Is that negotiable if my religion says PV = n/T*pi? How about the phlogiston theory of combustion? How about Malcom Bowden's wonderful Geocentricity theories? You have to like that one, right? Literal Genesis and thus "real" science!

The fact is that science makes progress by discarding wrong ideas. It converges upon an increasingly accurate description of nature. Your movement bailed from the ride along about 1859 so you don't have anything very workable to offer.

781 posted on 03/17/2003 7:19:49 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
The fact is that science makes progress by discarding wrong ideas. It converges upon an increasingly accurate description of nature. Your movement bailed from the ride along about 1859 so you don't have anything very workable to offer.

Hummm, I would have guessed 1459. But then again, I am open to new ideas.

788 posted on 03/17/2003 7:31:20 PM PST by balrog666 (When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain)
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To: VadeRetro
Vade,

The fossil record should be almost nothing but transitions. What part of that statement do you not understand? In order for the positive transitions to occur there should a overwhelming abundance of negative mutations. Do you disagree with that?

Regards,
Boiler Plate

800 posted on 03/17/2003 7:52:29 PM PST by Boiler Plate
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