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To: PatrickHenry
Without getting into it too much. I have the strong feeling that this will be rebuffed once they let some scientists with a different viewpoint examine this fossil. So don't jump the gun claiming victory.
37 posted on 04/02/2004 5:40:26 PM PST by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: vpintheak
So don't jump the gun claiming victory.

Victory? What victory? Fish and amphibians are genetically linked. It's nice to see the predicted pieces of the puzzle falling into place. But if this fossil isn't any good, another will turn up eventually.

39 posted on 04/02/2004 5:44:31 PM PST by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist!)
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To: vpintheak
I have the strong feeling that this will be rebuffed once they let some scientists with a different viewpoint examine this fossil.

"with a different viewpoint", eh? Which viewpoint might that be, eh?

If you're saying that "creationist scientists will think up some excuse to hand-wave this away also", no doubt, but that's hardly the same as an actual refutation.

So don't jump the gun claiming victory.

Don't jump the gun claiming defeat, either, as seems to be your motivation here ("it'll go down, just you wait and see!")

And pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

41 posted on 04/02/2004 5:47:40 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: vpintheak
Without getting into it too much. I have the strong feeling that this will be rebuffed once they let some scientists with a different viewpoint examine this fossil. So don't jump the gun claiming victory.

Hunches are good. I have the strong feeling I'm about to hit Lotto, Mega-Millions, or Powerball. That I have so far failed to do any such thing despite perhaps a couple thousand wasted dollars over the last fifteen years of trying means nothing against the power of my hunch.

The scientists who announced this discovery are not pikers in paleontology, so don't look for them to be spanked and put to bed with no supper anytime soon. ICR may deign to write a rebuttal, maybe even the prestigious Discovery Institute of Seattle, but it won't be based on any more than doctrinaire opposition to progress in this particular direction.

44 posted on 04/02/2004 5:51:30 PM PST by VadeRetro
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