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To: highball
Kindly provide an example of this "evolution of the theory" having been done.
Creationists love to talk about science adapting theories to suit the evidence. They don't seem to realize the nature of science.

According to evolutionary theory, grasses should not be found with dinosaurs because these plants did not evolve until 80 million years later.

Dinosaur poop shows grass is older than it seems

WASHINGTON -- Imagine dinosaur terrain -- full of ferns and palms, right? Better add some grass to that picture. A new discovery debunks the theory that grasses didn't emerge until long after the dinosaurs died off.

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They didn't eat a lot of grass, the evidence shows. But grasses must have originated considerably earlier, well over 80 million years ago, for such a wide variety to have evolved in time to be munched by sauropods, they concluded.

"These remarkable results will force reconsideration of many long-standing assumptions" about dinosaur ecology, wrote Dolores Piperno and Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in an accompanying review.

Thus, either what scientists "knew" about the arrival of grass on the evolutionary scene, or what scientists "knew" about the disappearance of dinosaurs from the evolutionary scene from the respective fossil records turns out to be incorrect. So according to the evolutionists cited in the article, "long-standing assumptions" will have to be "reconsidered". (Evolution of the theory.)
109 posted on 01/03/2006 2:55:12 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
That has to do with paleontology/paleobotany, not the theory of evolution. It's amazing too that scientists adjusting theories to fit facts gets them in trouble with creationists. Could it be because creationists never adjust anything to fit the facts? :)
115 posted on 01/03/2006 3:00:09 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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