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To: Dominic Harr; All
Since you are an evolutionist (and any evolutionist is welcome to respond) perhaps you can elucidate a few things. The article accuses evolutionists of failing to define their terms. Could you help us here? Could you help us have an intelligent discussion and define:
1. evolution.
2. natural selection.
3. speciation.
I mean, the writer of the article must be absolutely wrong must he not? After all, evolution is supposedly science and scientist always define their terms very carefully and exactly.

8 posted on 07/23/2002 7:49:26 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Since we're all 'evolutionists' -- you too! -- I'd be glad to do my best:

  1. evolution -- the idea that species adapt to their changing environment by means of natural selection.

  2. natural selection -- the idea that the environment 'selects' which progeny of a species will live and which will die.

  3. speciation -- the idea that after enough time, and enough small changes due to natural selection, a species will have changed enough from it's starting point to be considered a different species.

In laymens terms, there you go.

Now, wich of those do you disagree with?

10 posted on 07/23/2002 7:56:33 PM PDT by Dominic Harr
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