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To: woollyone
It most certainly is observable - try "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" By Jonathon Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize winning observation of evolution.
102 posted on 09/27/2001 11:35:52 AM PDT by Ice-D
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I know everybody has jumped all over this, but who has actually read the memo? I just finished reading it, and it seems like a marketing plan! I think this 'report' by the Discovery Institute is quite disingenuous. Here is a sample of the memo;

Science and religion can coexist. With this project we address the question of how life develops on Earth from the point of view of science, and not from the spiritual realm. Both realms can coexist side by side, but they speak to entirely different questions: one to the How, the other to the Why? Many key people who have spoken out on evolution, from Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Ken Miller to Pope John Paul III and Rev. Dr. Arthur Peacocke are helping us reinforce the idea that science and religion are not mutually exclusive. Belief in evolution does not challenge religious beliefs. Pope John Paulll has declared that evolution is a time-tested scientific theory that does not contradict the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. Catholicism, conservative and reform Judaism, and many Protestant denominations such as The United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church acknowledge that evolution is the description of a mechanism that governs the natural processes of life on Earth. Evolution does not claim to say anything about the existence of God, or about people's spiritual beliefs.

Just seems like a sensible marketing plan considering the nature of this topic.

106 posted on 09/27/2001 11:42:50 AM PDT by Ice-D
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To: Ice-D
"It most certainly is observable - try "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" By Jonathon Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize winning observation of evolution."

Again, finch's beaks may change through breeding, as my Golden Retreiver is a product of selective breeding. Can a Finch's beak turn into a pair of lips? If so, would it survive? I can also point out the exmples of the woodpecker and the Cleaner-Fish and demonstrate that it is an impossibility for these creature to have evolved naturally. Each of these two examples show intellegent design.

But can you demonstrate a finch turning into a lizzard, or a dog? That's the type of transition that is required for evolution to be believable...that a species can turn into another species.

baa

110 posted on 09/27/2001 11:50:00 AM PDT by woollyone
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