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To: Ohioan
In denying Evolution, on the other hand, people deny what has been carefully recorded even in the last few Centuries, with respect to Domesticated animals.

We've bred cats into dogs? Cattle into horses? Pigs into hens? That's news to me.

Perhaps if evolutionsists stopped falling back on the old canard of trying to confuse micro-evolution (producing distinctions within a species) with macro-evolution (one species changing into a radically different one over time by sheer accident), we could have a serious discussion between the two camps.

114 posted on 12/01/2005 1:15:11 PM PST by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
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To: Buggman
We've bred cats into dogs? Cattle into horses? Pigs into hens? That's news to me.

Perhaps if evolutionsists stopped falling back on the old canard of trying to confuse micro-evolution (producing distinctions within a species) with macro-evolution (one species changing into a radically different one over time by sheer accident), we could have a serious discussion between the two camps.

Perhaps if creationists stopped falling back on ridiculously false caricatures of evolutionary theory, we could have a serious discussion between the two camps.

By the way, what mechanism stops "micro-evolution" from becoming "macro-evolution"?

119 posted on 12/01/2005 1:21:01 PM PST by atlaw
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We've bred cats into dogs? Cattle into horses? Pigs into hens? That's news to me.

What an absurd argument! If you have no interest in an intellectually honest discussion, why participate? No one has ever suggested that you can turn one animal into another by selective breeding; nor that nature would do so by the process of mutations and survival differentials over many generations. But cats, dogs, cattle, horses, swine, etc., have all evolved within comparative recent history from earlier types into the present types. What is there in that you feel the need to deny?

152 posted on 12/01/2005 2:36:21 PM PST by Ohioan
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