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To: highball

Does it belong in a science class ?

Nope!

But Darwin must be taught honestly also - it IS a theory and it does NOT explain mankind's existance even though it, so far, follows along on to changes in lesser species.


152 posted on 09/08/2005 3:27:49 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.sigmaitsys.com)
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To: hombre_sincero

What, exactly, is a "lesser" species? How is this determined? How is the evolutionary process involving mutation of DNA and natural selection different in "greater" rather than "lesser" species?


155 posted on 09/08/2005 3:30:24 PM PDT by Mylo ( scientific discovery is also an occasion of worship.)
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To: hombre_sincero

"But Darwin must be taught honestly also - it IS a theory and it does NOT explain mankind's existance even though it, so far, follows along on to changes in lesser species."

First of all, "theory" in science doesn't mean what it means in common parlance. Theories are tested, theories have evidence to back them up. We see species evolving right now, such as tuskless elephants in Asia.

That having been said, evolution doesn't make any claims about how life started, only what happened to that life once it arose. Humans evolved from earlier primates, but evolution is silent on where the earliest primate came from. That's just not its job.


380 posted on 09/09/2005 6:48:58 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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