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To: Junior
""You keep claiming to have some scientific training, but you keep using unscientific terms like "macro-evolution" and "devolution" and asking for things like "stronger proof.""

Wrong on all counts! I have never claimed anything about myself for one thing. As to devolution, I find in my dictionary:
devolution, n, 1. transference from one individual to another as a. a passing or devolving (as of rights) upon a successor b: delegation or conferral to a subordinate c: the surrender of powers to local authorities by a central government 2. retrograde evolution: degeneration.

As to macro-evolution, this is a term which is often used in regards to evolution. Since Darwin, evolutionists have tried to confound two different kinds of changes in species - adaptational changes and transformational changes. No one argues with adaptational changes. Even the most virulent anti-evolutionists do not deny that species adapt to different environments and situations. What the whole evolution debate is about though is transformational changes. Species transforming themselves into other species. I (and many others) use the terms micro-evolution and macro-evolution to distinguish from these two kinds of changes. BTW I note lots of articles discussing macro-evolution in your list-o-links in post#650 on this thread!

790 posted on 03/20/2002 4:59:20 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
But when we show you actual speciation, y'all claim that that is not "macro-evolution" because the new animal is the same "kind" as the old animal. Please pick a definition and stay with it.
792 posted on 03/20/2002 6:16:24 AM PST by Junior
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