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To: donh
we still want a predictive explanation for the morphological flow of the fossils we recover,

There is no flow. Certain characteristics appear, dissappear and reappear a hundred million years later. Feathers are an example, the whale is a complete mystery, so is the platypus, so is the bat. Nothing in nature gives proof against the theory that God did it, in fact there is ample proof for it as I show above and even more if you wish.

124 posted on 09/25/2001 7:21:58 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000

There is no flow. Certain characteristics appear, dissappear and reappear a hundred million years later.

Oh really? Than how do you know there was a mysterious cambrian explosion so popular with creationists for it's sudden appearance of species? The appearance of morphological flow is the overwhelming central conundrum that led Darwin, and many others, to obsess about the question of evolution in the first place. Anyone looking at the distinctively different, distinctly segregated in index order, fossils in the Grand Canyon, at each eon layer, notes right away the appearance of morphological ordering. This is the standard first field trip for geological paleontology students--to discover for themselves whether or not they see morpological flow. It is painfully obvious--to over-simplify: nothing so complex as a mammal appears in the middle record; nothing so complex as a chordate appears in the early record.

Your alternative explanation is pretty amusing. So you claim, what? That God whupped up all these various critters fresh from scratch each time? Some kind of occupational therapy I guess. Why did he do that using all the same components each time? Didn't it occur to him that he could have used a few different amino acids, and/or codon triplets, and made it impossible for, say, polio mylitus to live on human nerve cells? Why is it that humans can eat mollusks? Why is it that mosquitos can live on human blood? What kind of disorderly, cruel, brain-damaged God is this?

135 posted on 09/26/2001 1:04:13 AM PDT by donh
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