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To: bobdsmith
The pattern of ERVs fit a nested heirarchy. Common descent expects this, common design does not.

Let's say you're programming in an object oriented language, and you have a parent class which contains some, err, poorly developed code. If you make a child class which extends the parent class, you will bring the poor code along.

Parent / child = descent. But it's still design in that case.

Just stirring the pot.

Cheers!

1,062 posted on 12/31/2005 7:46:46 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I understand that common descent is compatible with ID, but I thought I was responding to an argument against common descent (I could be mistaken)


1,101 posted on 12/31/2005 11:08:37 AM PST by bobdsmith
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