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To: villagerjoel
I don't think many of those who don't believe evolution to be fact are arguing that organisms don't adapt and change.

What do you think evolution is?? It is the process in which organisms adapt and change.

How can you not believe in a process that you just admitted to be true? The theory of evolution does not address how life formed. It addresses how life adapts and changes.

37 posted on 07/03/2006 10:40:29 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra

That life changes and adapts is not unique to the theory of evolution.

A creator would also create life with the ability to 'change and adapt'.

The truth is, there is no evidence that uniquely supports an evolutionary model; therefore, you cannot say that evolution is a 'fact'. It is merely 'defined truth'.

That is, the definition of evolution has been carefully crafted to be consistent w/ the evidence. Unfortunately, this has produced a definition that is also consistent w/ a created biology that is adaptive and 'evolution' has lost any ability to be falsified wrt creation.

In fact, evolution has been *defined* to be consistent with a genome that is in decline. After all, a population that is accumulating deleterious genetic mutations is also 'changing'.

Adaptation, meanwhile, is merely a process of sorting existing information for that which best 'fits' one environment over another. Nothing inconsistent w/ creation there either.

A creator would also create life with the ability to 'change and adapt'.

Perhaps you don't understand that evolution has merely been 'defined' to be true and true believers like yourself are not able to understand that this same 'definition' has also made evolution consistent with a created bioligy that is in decline.

How can you pretend that one 'defined truth' is superior to another when there is no unique evidence?


74 posted on 07/03/2006 12:17:59 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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