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To: PatrickHenry
"There is a 40-million-year gap between fossils of early cetaceans and early hippos"

There you have it - if given enough time my 65 Ford Mustang could evolve to be a fruit fly. They say "life" somehow sprang from un-life so it'll eventually work out the problems.

26 posted on 02/08/2005 4:37:11 AM PST by patriot_wes (When I see two guys kissin..argh! Is puking a hate crime yet?)
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To: patriot_wes
They say "life" somehow sprang from un-life so it'll eventually work out the problems.

Who are "they?" How's that deception thing working out for you?

33 posted on 02/08/2005 5:06:07 AM PST by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: patriot_wes
There you have it - if given enough time my 65 Ford Mustang could evolve to be a fruit fly.

No it couldn't, because your Mustang doesn't replicate itself, which is one of the three necessary conditions for evolutionary processes to occur. (The other two are heritable variation, and selection.)

Duh. Ridiculing a distorted cartoon-version of an opposing position is known as a "straw man fallacy", because it's equivalent to knocking around a scarecrow dressed up to look like Mike Tyson, then beating your chest about how you've defeated the champ...

That also explains why Hoyle's moronic "tornado in a junkyard" analogy (so beloved by creationists) is bogus as well. It's a completely invalid model of evolutionary processes. Hoyle was famous as an astronomer, but as a biologist he was way out of his field and pretty much a complete idiot (he also believed that insects might be as smart as humans, but just hiding it from us...)

42 posted on 02/08/2005 5:22:54 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: patriot_wes
Somewhere along the line the hippo "lost" 8 chromosomes, or is it the whale "gained" them.

How many does a 65 Ford Mustang have?
170 posted on 02/08/2005 6:55:02 AM PST by jps098
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