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To: Cicero
Partial, intra-species evolution, yes, of course. Finches growing longer beaks, dogs specializing, horses getting larger, sure.

Take your ingredients, bake for very long periods of time, throw in a bit of isolation and natural disaster, dash with changing climate and viola you've got new species popping up all over the place.

Evolution and ID are not mutually exclusive. The way I see it evolution attempts to explain differentiation in existing species, while ID attempts to explain origin of life. ID theorists don't seem to be saying that the intelligence behind creation is still creating new forms (which is obviously taking place) and evolution theory does not apply to anything other than species differentiation (which by definition would require a species to start from).

EBUCK

102 posted on 05/30/2002 11:35:14 AM PDT by EBUCK
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To: EBUCK
Take your ingredients, bake for very long periods of time, throw in a bit of isolation and natural disaster, dash with changing climate and viola you've got new species popping up all over the place.

OK, this is where I have trouble. Of course, nobody is going to post a biology textbook on FR, but if evolution is science, it needs to be less flip. There needs to be some demonstrable mechanism for these ingredients leading to the current variety of life we have on this planet.

Maybe you were being flip and don't know any more about the science than I do. But so far, even when reading the layman's books by Gould, Dawkins, etc, I don't find the specifics. No experiment where someone mutated a fruitfly and got something other than a fruitfly. Of course I could have missed it, but a flip paragraph like the above does not do the real requirements of evolution any service.

Shalom.

108 posted on 05/30/2002 11:43:43 AM PDT by ArGee
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