Posted on 12/27/2008 5:57:08 PM PST by Inappropriate Laughter
Well now you're crediting Darwin with what Mendel discovered. Darwin's own theories of heredity were completely false. They did inspire Lysenko, though.
Trilobite trails were found in the Atlantic years ago. Coelacanths are regularly fished out of the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.
A very important way to determine historical truth is in examining chronology. The gnostic works were written at least a century after the Gospels of the New Testament, which immediately detract from their credibility.
Further, the geographical errors and other inconsistencies found in the gnostics made it simple for the church at the time, accurately so, to dismiss them.
If I may, I would like to emphasize my point that the whole idea of gene therapy and genetics, and the fact that gene therapy works, demonstrates nothing with regard to Darwinian evolution theory.
That is, the reproducible mechanisms of gene therapy are separate and independent of the hypothetical mechanisms of random mutation, natural selection and speciation.
thank you for your reasoned and thoughtful reply. I will review it.
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