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To: WildTurkey
Anyone that thinks plants haven't successfully evolved the ability to survive is nuts!

Again, creationist falsely assert that evolution predicts a direction of change or a specified outcome.

Until you get past that misunderstanding there is no hope.

1,435 posted on 02/02/2005 9:17:06 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
Again, creationist falsely assert that evolution predicts a direction of change or a specified outcome.

Their basic assumption is that Adam was created with perfect genes and ever since the gene pool has degraded.

There second assumption is that evolution is impossible because "evolution requires that the gene pool" (of humans) is constantly improving to perfection thus in conflict with their Biblical interpretation of life.

1,442 posted on 02/02/2005 9:30:22 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: js1138
Is equilibrium a specified outcome?

Let's look at the fossil record even. In each epoch we seem to see that a set of animal species fill each niche and that those niches are similar to today's fit of species to niche.

Yet plants never seem to have evolved into any niche that required independently directed motion.

And sexless organisims never seem to have evovled much at all -- yet they have avoided erradication by animals or plants competeing for their niche.

There is one HYPOTHESIS -- hard to raise it to the level of theory -- that the random mix of natural physical processes operating under strict darwinistic evolution would for complex and subtle reasons unknown at this time result in such a current state. That is a HOPE, a FAITH, a BELIEF SYSTEM.

It is unproven. It is not a reasonable projection of more proven and evidenced theory either -- not reasonable, that is, if it is asserted as the ONLY reasonable projection.

1,443 posted on 02/02/2005 9:33:36 AM PST by bvw
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