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To: gore3000
"So the question is who did the selecting? What force did the selecting." -- gore3000

You have been at this long enough to know the answer to these questions by now. Do you have impaired long term memory? Selection is an algorithm that operates with inexorable and indefatigable certainty at all times and places. That doesn't mean it acts constantly in the same direction. The Dodo's ancestors, once capable of transoceanic flight, evolved was selected for flightlessness after it settled on its island home.

Here is a suggestion. Why not get your hands on a copy of Stephen Jay Gould's latest book, "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory?" At 1464 pages it should answer most of your questions and you can refer to it during your frequent memory lapses.

289 posted on 03/15/2002 7:24:07 PM PST by Vercingetorix
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To: Vercingetorix
"You have been at this long enough to know the answer to these questions by now. Do you have impaired long term memory? Selection is an algorithm that operates with inexorable and indefatigable certainty at all times and places....The Dodo's ancestors, "

You are being very dishonest. We were discussing abiogenesis, about how life first began. There was no life to select then. Evolution and survival of the fittest (even if true) did not work then. So you are just talking nonsense and being insulting because you have no answer. Again I ask you the question - who was doing the selecting before there was any life? You have no answer because there is absolutely no way life could have arisen from inert matter without a Creator.

292 posted on 03/15/2002 8:07:49 PM PST by gore3000
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