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To: sevry
One last time:

If the fossilized bones of a modern human were found in previously undisturbed 50-million-year-old sediment, it would be impossible for modern humans to have evolved from earlier hominids which are only a few million years old. Hence it would be false to claim that modern humans evolved from the earlier hominids that we currently recognize (because the discovered bones would be far older than those hominids ever were).

I maintain that this argument—which is essentially the same argument I've made twice before and won't repeat again—is independent of any particular mechanism or detail of evolution theory. It's a philosophical argument, not a scientific one. If you disagree, make your case.

22 posted on 01/20/2005 4:25:53 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
One last time

You're pointlessly repeating yourself, and not replying to a word I wrote. You prefer to have the last word?

23 posted on 01/20/2005 4:33:53 PM PST by sevry
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