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To: Alberta's Child
Your comment is nonsensical. Evolution does not purport to predict what new features would evolve. Your attempt to claim that as a requirement of its scientific validity is bizarre at best. You don't understand what the scientific method entails at all.
150 posted on 06/07/2002 2:54:32 PM PDT by spqrzilla9
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To: spqrzilla9
I'm an engineer by trade, so nearly 100% of what I do is based on some extension of the scientific method.

You completely misunderstood my point. I would not expect Darwin to have the ability to predict specific changes in an ecosystem (that IS nonsense), but if his theory that the complexity of species increases over time is correct, then he would have to conclude that zebras, for example, would be more "complex" (perhaps in some unspecified manner that Darwin could not foresee) in 2002 than they were in 1830.

152 posted on 06/07/2002 3:00:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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