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To: Doc Savage

So in your estimation 100 years is a long time?


466 posted on 10/16/2006 12:21:07 PM PDT by samtheman (The Democrats are Instituting their own Guest Voter Program.)
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To: samtheman; Doc Savage
That would be, "As for you, PH, you are the greatEST...not greatist" You've now had well over a 100 years to figure evolution out. It should be easy for you, as a self-proclaimed genius, to state unequivocally that it's a LAW! Then, if you'd be so kind, you can take us down to the molecular biological level and tell us in painstaking detail exactly how macro-evolution occurred.

"So in your estimation 100 years is a long time?"

The length of time is irrelevant.

Doc Savage is claiming that a theory eventually graduates to a law. Apparently he does not know that a 'law' and a 'theory' are different, so that a theory can never graduate to a law. In fact for a theory to graduate to a law would require a drastic change in definition.

A law is a description of consistent observations. A theory is an explanation for observations and as such, theories encompass laws, making those laws part of the theory.

471 posted on 10/17/2006 12:55:17 PM PDT by b_sharp (evolution is not, generally speaking, a global optimiser, but a general satisficer -J. Wilkins)
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