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To: discostu
evolution is the gradual change of species, or sections of species, into at least 1 and possibly many other species

You 'fact' of evolution, then?

Leaving aside the rather vague pronouncement, however you define it, whatever you mean by it - do you have any theories as to what might have caused this to happen?

106 posted on 01/20/2005 2:18:31 PM PST by sevry
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To: sevry

I accept as a fact that there has been and continues to be something going on which matches on some levels what we consider to be evolution. I also accept that evolution is a very young science about a very long process and most of our explanations of how it happens are probably wrong, but eventually we'll figure it out. We've gone through the same process with almost every subsection of scientific thought, from our study of gravity to our study of the weather through to our recent advances in aerodynamics and electricity.

It's a vague pronouncement because you can't describe ANY science in under 1000 pages with any but vague pronouncments. Science is prety complicated stuff, and most sciences got a lot more complicated once we started dissecting atoms. What caused evolution to happen is a completely different science, abiogenesis, and until that science has an answer that can enumerate with high confidence exactly what the first life forms were which will then give evolution a starting point to work from they will remain completely seperate sciences. Under the current state of evolutionary though what caused it all to happen is immaterial, could be primoridial ooze, could be the Judeao-Christian God, could be an asteriod, could be aliens, could be Titans, doesn't matter. Evolution is all about figuring what happened to species X which isn't around anymore but there's these other species around that look a lot like it.


119 posted on 01/20/2005 2:27:59 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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