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To: GunRunner

Don’t kid yourself. Even the Wikipedia listing for the pre-cambrian rabbit incorporates a hedge on Haldane’s bet. And while you continue to make allusions to some sweeping body of testable particulars, you’ve yet to present any beside a quip from a long gone “scientist” who wouldn’t even qualify as a student by modern standards.

I do understand your incentive to declare victory, and “beat feet.” Yours is the inenviable position of trying to keep your theoretical boat afloat no matter the number of holes in it, while mine is simply to legitimately punch those holes. So if it makes you feel better to “throw a flag” instead of playing the game: so be it.


183 posted on 09/01/2011 11:37:28 AM PDT by papertyger (Obama hates ooompa loompas!)
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To: papertyger
Yours is the inenviable position of trying to keep your theoretical boat afloat no matter the number of holes in it, while mine is simply to legitimately punch those holes.

It's not my boat. Evolution is well supported with very specific falsifiable tests. Understand, there's no mainstream widespread controversy over the basic foundations of evolution outside of evangelicals and Islamists. There's no great debate going on except in your little cargo cult.

You can try:

*If it could be shown that mutations do not occur.
*If it could be shown that, although mutations do occur, they are not passed down through the generations.
*If it could be shown that, although mutations are passed down, no mutation could produce the sort of phenotypic changes that drive natural selection.
*If it could be shown that selection or environmental pressures do not favor the reproductive success of better adapted individuals.

Like I said, provide a falsificaiton of evolution and the world will beat a path to your door, and you will be the recipient of untold fame and riches.

Or you could just keep making excuses.

185 posted on 09/01/2011 11:49:06 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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