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To: CarolinaGuitarman
The notion that there is such a category as "pigeon" is "silly"?

The notion that there is such a category as dog is silly?

If words had no meaning, as you seem to suggest my FRiend, how then are we able to communicate?

181 posted on 07/12/2006 9:05:43 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
"The notion that there is such a category as "pigeon" is "silly"?"

No, but the category isn't a species category. You said there was only one species of pigeon. In fact there are over 200.

"If words had no meaning, as you seem to suggest my FRiend,..."

I suggested no such thing. It was you who used *species* in a way that would give it no meaning.

"The point is, organs as vastly complex as the mammalian eye, stand as irreducibly complex examples of something designed for a purpose..."

No, they don't. Behe (and Paley, the guy he stole that from) was wrong.

"One would sound rather ridiculous if he tried to explain how such a marvelous organ could arise piecemeal."

Only if it was assumed that the mammalian eye *poofed* out fo nowhere.

"Hence, punctuated equalibrium i.e. don't you dare question the theory."

Um, no. PE is still a gradual process. It is only *fast* in geological time. We are still talking about tens of thousands of years between speciation events.
183 posted on 07/13/2006 4:37:28 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman (Gas up your tanks!!)
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