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To: AndrewC
That is fine. It is then part of the theory, and not a fact. That means you shouldn't use it as evidence for the theory.

That would depend on the reference of the pronoun "it." A cladogram contains details of relationships which in evolution are understood to be the product a historical diverging, branching process. Thus, a cladogram is only evidence that someone thinks the relationship is what the cladogram says. A fossil is evidence that an individual thing lived at a time.

974 posted on 03/19/2003 9:31:45 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Thus, a cladogram is only evidence that someone thinks the relationship is what the cladogram says.

Thus it is part of the theory.

976 posted on 03/19/2003 9:36:47 AM PST by AndrewC (Jello™ is suing Darwininians for patent infringement.)
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