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To: orionblamblam

You make my case for me - check out Post #13, to which I replied. That Freeper said evolutionary theory explains the origin of life, not me. What a dope.

My schooling taught me to get the facts before I responded. And yours?


75 posted on 11/09/2004 12:53:21 PM PST by MoonMullins
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To: MoonMullins
". . . check out Post #13, to which I replied. That Freeper said evolutionary theory explains the origin of life, not me. What a dope. . . ."

Well I'm the "dope" who put up post #13 and this is what it said in its entirety:

"There are two things that must be separated when dealing with Darwin's Theory of Evolution; evolutionary change as the origin of species and natural selection as the engine of evolutionary change. There is almost no serious debate within the scientific community about whether evolutionary change is responsible for the origin of new species. But there is a very serious debate about whether natural selection is the means by which that change is effected.

Though I must confess I read the above article at a much more rapid speed than I should have to give a proper commentary, it seems to me that by raising real problems with Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection as the means of evolutionary change it attempts to challenge the Theory of Evolution itself as the origin of species, though it does not say so outright. This is problematic, because any challenge to the Theory of Evolution must present an alternative, which I do not see proposed in the above article.
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There is quite a bit about the "origin of species" but absolutely nothing about the "origin of life." So if you have problems reading the English language, please be careful who you call a "dope."
93 posted on 11/09/2004 1:12:35 PM PST by StJacques
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