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To: Phaedrus

And more garbage. Evidence? None in support, much against. Predictions? Silliness. Profitable in industry? More hilarity.

Every summer, geological paleontology students predict, based on the supposedly evanescent morphological flow, where to dig, and predict what they will find. This frequently, more frequently than chance would suggest, results in yet more filled in blanks where creationists were pointing and chortling over the "missing links" in the creationist story. This is how we went from 3 kinds of critters in the evolution of horses story, to several dozen, not occuring in random all over the historical landscape--occuring between the previously extant critters that they resemble in the mesozoic.

Oil companies follow the advancing and retreating shorelines of ancient worlds, as laid out by fossils in the geological column, to the Devonian layer, where the oil is.

The Gilder article you so venerate is riddled with well-known nonsense--I just showed you just above it 3 instances where Behe's cocksure predictions fell flat on the floor.

The article claims there are no examples of speciation, this is willful ignorance. It we weren't generating new infectuous bugs, we wouldn't be having to invent new anti-biotics. The U of Chicago, years ago, did an experiment where they sealed mealy bugs in separate bottles in the basement of the biology building, for some 30 years, at the end of which time, they could not interbreed. The report on the finches is also inaccurate--new modern patterns in finch beaks have resulted in finches that fail to interbreed in 100% of observed attempts. See "The Beak of the Finch" which just won the pulitzer.

131 posted on 09/26/2001 12:22:29 AM PDT by donh
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To: donh
Give it up, donh. Evolution upsets the average creationist's pat little world view. You can lead a creationist to evidence, but you cannot make him think...
143 posted on 09/26/2001 3:52:38 PM PDT by Junior
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