Posted on 01/13/2005 2:05:09 PM PST by quidnunc
Okay, guys, this is it: my third, and for the moment, last kick at the evolutionary can (the first two appeared the last two Wednesdays). I can't resist, I've received so much mail, though it's beginning to go circular.
Please, nobody send me any more links to the standard websites for evolutionary apologetics: I must have read them all. The best is the "Talk Origins Archive" (an easy Google-search). Anyone who wants to see the scientific arguments for an evolution unambiguously descended from Darwin, go there: enjoy. The thing is superbly well done.
It is after all designed to provide any sceptic of Darwinism with death from a thousand pinpricks. For that is how the argument for "macro-evolution" is conducted (i.e. evolution above the taxonomic level of the species; as distinct from "micro-evolution", which is a snip, for everyone in his right mind knows that creatures adapt to environment at the species level, and can be bred this way and that). There are a thousand facts about life in nature that are not incompatible with "macro-evolution"; each of which could be explained in other ways with wit and patience.
But biology is not physics, nor chemistry, and the evidence summoned lacks the hammerblow I enjoy in a "pure" science. We are dealing with a curry, not with a truite-au-bleu. The very messiness of the evidence is a recipe for seeing what you want to see; for biology is patch as patch can.
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(Excerpt) Read more at davidwarrenonline.com ...
FYI
I have a question that maybe you can help me with.
What if Darwin was never born?
"I doubt if you get much response."
Ah, you throw down the gauntlet! The gaunt, by-the-way, was a tiny creature which was once thought to be the tiniest species of the phylum "gauntulytum." But as communication evolved among the homo sapiens, the world became smaller. Thus, in order to keep up a large enough breeding population to sustain the continued existence of the gaunt, it became evolutionarily adamant for the gaunt to evolve into the gauntlet. So remember, next time you throw down the gauntlet, be gentle. This is the tiniest and most fragile creature of its kind.
At the same time Darwin published his works, Alfred Russel Wallace was also arriving at the same conclusions.
If Darwin had never lived, creationists would just be hating on Wallace now instead.
Thanks for the ping, as always. But I have to disagree with David Warren on this one.
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