To: Coyoteman
What, exactly, does evolution "explain". Evolution is not a process. You cannot generate it, you cannot make it happen. You cannot reproduce it in a lab. It is a paradigm. Mutation is a theory.
To: AmishDude
What, exactly, does evolution "explain". Evolution explains the relationships between and among the folks in the picture below.
Or, as Heinlein noted:
Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.
A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].
Figure 1.4.4. Fossil hominid skulls. Some of the figures have been modified for ease of comparison (only left-right mirroring or removal of a jawbone). (Images © 2000 Smithsonian Institution.)
(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
(B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
(C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
(D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
(E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
(F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
(G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
(I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
(J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
(K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
(L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
(M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
(N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern
129 posted on
02/28/2006 9:13:11 AM PST by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: AmishDude
What, exactly, does evolution "explain". Evolution is not a process. You cannot generate it, you cannot make it happen. You cannot reproduce it in a lab. It is a paradigm. Mutation is a theory. Yep. All those undergrads are just wasting their time with Drosophila melanogaster in Biology Lab.
146 posted on
02/28/2006 9:28:48 AM PST by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to misspeak)
To: AmishDude
It explains why most taxonomic schemes yield a tree, not a lawn.
158 posted on
02/28/2006 9:37:56 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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