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To: crail

Until scientists come up with something they all agree on regarding species, what difference does it make?


59 posted on 05/10/2005 6:14:57 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
Scientists are working towards a useful definition in a gray area. Species change over time, and branch. That makes species difficult to define. In spite of that, there is lots of ongoing work, discussion and working definitions.

Creationists say kinds never change, never branch. It should be easy to make definitions in that field, since time won't bring one kind to another, but they resist it because what they do isn't science. Scientists have debate between several camps, creationists have nothing, and you say what difference does it make? Science is learning, creationism is not.
60 posted on 05/10/2005 6:18:28 AM PDT by crail (Better lives have been lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in the halls of palaces.)
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To: mlc9852
Until scientists come up with something they all agree on regarding species, what difference does it make?

One thing that I'm sure scientists do agree on. And that's the fact that criticisms of evolution can continue forever. But until a superior alternative explanation is offered that explains all the observed data, then evolution stands.

74 posted on 05/10/2005 6:42:57 AM PDT by narby
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To: mlc9852
Until scientists come up with something they all agree on regarding species, what difference does it make?

This has been explained to you before. Scientists all agree regarding species; they agree that any definition of species is fuzzy (technical term) rather than crisp (another techincal term.)

Not all useful concepts are crisp; terms like tall, pink, riverbank, etc. do not have sharp boundaries, but that doesn't make the terms useless.

125 posted on 05/10/2005 7:39:19 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: mlc9852
Until scientists come up with something they all agree on regarding species, what difference does it make?

Until believers come up with something they all agree on regarding religion, what difference does it make?

176 posted on 05/10/2005 8:55:36 AM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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