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To: DittoJed2
Genetics does not support the jumps which evolution requires. When mutation occurs, it is usually detrimental to the creature and it certainly doesn't cause it to jump into an entirely different type of animal (reptile to bird, etc).

Of course not. What you wrote above is a common creationist strawman of how evolution must work.
But there are no jumps and evolution most certainly does not require that such a transition like that in your example occurs within one generation.

1,661 posted on 08/20/2003 12:51:09 PM PDT by BMCDA
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To: BMCDA
It requires that information be ADDED to the genetics of an animal that turns them from reptile to reptile plus a little bird, plus a little more bird, plus a little more bird until they are a bird. I understand what evolution is saying here. Whether or not dinosaurs were ectotherms or endotherms is also highly debated, adding another kink in some of the less disputed examples of evolution. Having genetic proof of an ape becoming more human until he becomes a human is missing.
1,662 posted on 08/20/2003 12:54:00 PM PDT by DittoJed2
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To: BMCDA
And incidentally, some evolutionists believe there had to be jumps. Punctuated equillibrium explains such jumps (species separates from parent and evolves quickly. Returns to the fold and replaces parent species.) Of course, this still doesn't explain how an ape would turn into a human being.
1,666 posted on 08/20/2003 12:57:50 PM PDT by DittoJed2
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