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To: ThirstyMan
Would you mind sharing a few of those "stunning predictions"? The idea that the evolutionary model predicts something is curious to me.

Well, why don't you dispose of the ones I already cited in the OP? When you've done that we can look at some more. I'll leave you with an interesting little one. Evolutionary biologists predicted that marsupial fossils would be found in antarctica, but nowhere else (apart from Australasia of course). And when people looked, they were. Here's another nugget. It was predicted early on that no two oceanic islands would share the same species of flightless bird, and they don't. That is because flightlessness is a positive mutation for a bird that makes it to an oceanic island with no natural predators; working wings cost so if you don't need them then lose them. But naturally once they are flightless they cannot make it to another island, so every island has its own flightless bird species, or none at all. You might respond that an Intelligent Designer would do that too, and that is true, but there is no way that anyone could predict in advance that an Intelligent Designer would design a different flightless bird species for every oceanic island, so finding the truth of that is a confirmation of ToE. Put it another way, if any two oceanic islands HAD shared the same flightless bird species that would present ToE with severe problems.

150 posted on 10/27/2005 9:39:23 AM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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To: Thatcherite
Well, why don't you dispose of the ones I already cited in the OP?

Ok, what's the OP?

(Every once in a while you guys could drop the at-war attitude and answer a question. You are treating me as the enemy and I don't really think of myself as such. You may, but I don't.)

151 posted on 10/27/2005 10:42:24 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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To: Thatcherite
That is because flightlessness is a positive mutation for a bird that makes it to an oceanic island with no natural predators; working wings cost so if you don't need them then lose them.

Interesting indeed. Do you think that a mutation is required or simply that the trait was included in the bird's genome and favored by the environment? (left behind so to speak because he couldn't fly)

152 posted on 10/27/2005 10:54:39 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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