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To: Right Wing Professor
The equation F=ma does not assume a god.

The equation F=ma does not postulate random mutations and natural selection as sole causes for the speciation observed today, either.

269 posted on 01/31/2006 12:02:45 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Not that it has anything to with the post, but I think Newton actually said that F=d(M*V). It was just reduced because it was assumed that mass was constant.


278 posted on 01/31/2006 12:25:52 PM PST by DX10
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The equation F=ma does not postulate random mutations and natural selection as sole causes for the speciation observed today, either.

What has either got to do with the existence of a deity?

283 posted on 01/31/2006 12:39:55 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Fester Chugabrew; Right Wing Professor
[The equation F=ma does not assume a god.]

The equation F=ma does not postulate random mutations and natural selection as sole causes for the speciation observed today, either.

Neither does evolutionary biology. Heck, neither did Darwin.

To dispel the myth that Darwin ever considered that natural selection might be the "sole" method of evolution, one needs only read this passage from the 1872 edition of On the Origin of Species:

"As my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position—namely at the close of the Introduction—the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation."

I really wish people would try to learn some biology before they attempted to critique it.

430 posted on 01/31/2006 6:03:49 PM PST by Ichneumon
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