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To: PatrickHenry
I don't understand the hangup over "stasis." A creature either produces mutant offspring or it doesn't.

The hangup is that for evolution to be true, to have produced millions of species living at present and putatively many times more throughout the ages, requires that species be able to change at a fairly large rate of speed. Not only that, since essentially (according to evolution) all species are descended from other species according to the evo so called 'tree of life', all species along the line must have been able to transform themselves for the new species to have ever arisen. So indeed stasis is a big problem for evolution. Evolution requires constant change.

Even bigger than the above problem though is the problem of the 'engine' of evolution - natural selection. Supposedly all species are 'molded' by natural selection as the environment constantly changes (as well as the competitor species). Now, if constant environment forces change in species and is what drives evolution, then it is clearly impossible for any species to have remained 'static' if evolution is true because at the minimum, the competitor species have been constantly changing. So yes, stasis is a strong disproof of evolution.

45 posted on 05/22/2003 7:42:26 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
So yes, stasis is a strong disproof of evolution.

except in environments, like the mud of the ocean floor, where the conditions don't change much.

1,553 posted on 05/29/2003 12:03:55 PM PDT by donh (/)
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