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To: Ichneumon
All I need to look at is the the extremly slow progress of evolution in this one creature to realize that evolution (were it true) is not a fast process but a slow one. (False analogy: the rusty car doesn't work. No one is claiming that obviously broken down cars are roadworthy. Someone is claiming that in the available time all of this world's seen diversity developed on its own by an evolutionary process.)

This adds credibility to Behe's mathematical model which says outside influence was needed. It does not support Darwinism which posits all the world's diversity in approximately 8 billion years....(unless they've changed that number again.)

Here we have a creature that hasn't changed in 250 million of those years. That's 1/32d of your total.

The walls are closing in mathematically.
136 posted on 12/07/2003 4:54:41 AM PST by xzins (Proud to be Army!)
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To: xzins
This adds credibility to Behe's mathematical model which says outside influence was needed.

Behe's model has zero credibility to a statistician. To calculate the odds of an event, you need a numerically specified state-space, and a numerically specified selection criteria within that state-space. Neither Behe, nor anyone else, has any idea whatsoever what the state-space and selection criteria actually were that produced life.

144 posted on 12/07/2003 10:15:20 AM PST by donh
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