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To: Tribune7
Occam's Razor will not lead you to believe that a rose and a robin came from a common ancestor.

No, of course not. I also never said it did.
It's the evidence in favor of evolution that convinces me of their common descent.

420 posted on 04/09/2005 10:43:42 AM PDT by BMCDA
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To: BMCDA
It's the evidence in favor of evolution that convinces me of their common descent.

The evidence for common descent are:

1. The fossil record
2. Phylogenetic sequencing

You most likely came to accept common descent via the evidence of the fossil record, which is now being contradicted by the sequencing.

If the foundation for your view is crumbling why not consider other possibilities?

Or you could be fairly young and came to conclude that evolution is true because, well chimp and man have a more similar genome than man and dog, which is more simlar than man and squid etc. In this case how would you explain conundrums in the fossil record?

I'm not claiming evolution has been shown to be impossible. What I am claiming is that the guidance of a creator is just as scientific, or rational, an explanation if not more so.

Nor, am I claiming that evolutionists or relgious skeptics can't be moral people.

437 posted on 04/09/2005 1:50:46 PM PDT by Tribune7
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