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To: Stop Legal Plunder
You should note that evolutionary theory does not address the beginnings of life at all. Evolutionary theory addresses changes in aggregate populations. There are investigations into the origins of life, but these are not part of evolutionary theory. Neither is cosmology nor accounting.
172 posted on 05/06/2003 9:50:43 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
I don't know why people just cannot get it. I've heard creationists try to justify the accusation that evolution must deal with the origins of life because 'how else can it explain its origins'. I've answered before that gravitational theory is a theory that deals with matter, but that the ultimate origins of matter are not a part of the theory, but it seems lost upon them that a similar application occurs with evolution.
179 posted on 05/06/2003 9:57:36 PM PDT by Dimensio (Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
You should note that evolutionary theory does not address the beginnings of life at all.

Darwin called his magnus opus the "Origin of Species." The beginnings of life is the origin of species. Now, if you're saying that evolutionary theory does not scientifically address the leap from non-life to life, then you're right. But that such a leap took place is part of standard evolutionary doctrine.

Evolutionary theory addresses changes in aggregate populations.

The subtitle of Darwin's book was "The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Survival." That's one of the kinds of population Darwin focused on, and Hitler followed him rather faithfully. It's too bad that modern readers of Darwin are almost always treated to carefully abridged versions of his Origin of Species in class...if they ever see it all.

Neither...cosmology nor accounting [is part of evolutionary theory.]

Cosmology certainly is. I'm sure you've heard of stellar evolution. As for accounting, isn't it a more evolved version of numerology? =)

182 posted on 05/06/2003 10:02:36 PM PDT by Stop Legal Plunder ("When words are many, sin is not lacking." -- Proverbs 10:19a)
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