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To: Floyd R Turbo
That's right. It's only a feeble theory contrived (and defended) as an attempt to explain away God. Nothing more complicated than that.

Except that it makes predictions, and many (ie all that have been tested) of these predictions have been shown to be true.

For example

The intermediate forms between (other) apes and people, if they are preserved as fossils at all, will be found in Africa. (Darwin)

There were intermediates between terrestial mammals and cetacians (whales, dolphins, etc), and also betweeen land mammals and syreniae (manatees, dugongs, etc).(Darwin)

If a pseudogene, transposon, etc, is found in the genome of people and orangutangs, it is also in chimps and gorillas.

If a pseudogene, etc, is found in cows and whales, it is also in hippos.

Ditto for cats, dogs and bears

No fossil elephant will ever be found in Hawaii

No fossil mammal will ever be found in Cambrian rocks

Precambrian life existed (Darwin)

No fossil intermediate between birds and mammals will ever be found.

And many many more...

All of these predictions are true. Pretty good for a "feeble theory", heh?

166 posted on 05/06/2004 12:33:24 AM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
Here's another prediction you can chalk up to evolution: no fossil Kiwi birds on Mt. Ararat, or between there and New Zealand.

Creationism, however, will make a quite different prediction about that bird.
169 posted on 05/06/2004 12:39:07 AM PDT by orionblamblam
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