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To: Matchett-PI
(See my previous posts on this thread). Hahahaha

Sounds like you're getting too emotional. Your previous post, if you mean number 74, basically justifies ignoring the amazing preponderance of evidence for evolution on the grounds that its all experience and thus perception and thus unreliable and thus we really don't know anything so maybe we really were made in 6 days 6K years ago . . .

I can't get excited about the "real science" because it has nothing to teach us except that we know nothing. That's not the girl we came to the dance of the 21st century with.

125 posted on 09/25/2001 6:42:32 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro, jennyp, PatrickHenry, ThinkPlease, RadioAstronomer
Second half of episode #2 went off track with all the global warming/man-is-causing-extinctions hysteria. I suppose it was required in order to get the commies at PBS to agree to run the series.

I also think the scientists are missing the big picture if they think that ecosystems should exist in some sort of stasis; the big message of evolution is, given enough time, virtually all ecosystems are dynamic, and will become disturbed (whether by natural or man-made reasons) and some species will go extinct as a result. In short, given enough time, all things change.

They also fail to even mention the fact that it is extinctions of species that open the door for critters to exploit the now vacated eco-niches of the extinct species, and for new species to begin to radiate therefrom.

But, I'm no bio-nerd, so maybe I missed something.

130 posted on 09/25/2001 7:52:21 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: VadeRetro
#125: "Your previous post, if you mean number 74, basically justifies ignoring the amazing preponderance of evidence for evolution on the grounds that its all experience and thus perception and thus unreliable and thus we really don't know anything . ."

If thats what you got out of what I've written in this thread, I can see that you are a very confused one-armed boat rower. Only those who don't mind going in circles will hop in your boat.

177 posted on 09/25/2001 9:24:08 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
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