Re: Evolution as fact

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There is evidence that some species have evolved and in there particular
case it is a fact, but that doesn't necessarily follow to everything else.

At 11:26 AM 03/07/96 -0330, Adrian Tanner wrote:
>Mr E wrote
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>>At 03:14 PM 03/06/96 -0330, Adrian Tanner wrote:
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>>>Evolution is such a law, rather than a fact, isn't it?
>>
>>Nope, that's why there so much debate ... see nobody's debating the Law of
>>Gravity.
>>
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>Except among some followers of TM, who believe in levitation.
>
>My point was about terminology. Not being an expert on the evidence for
>evolution, I would be quite happy to call it to a theory. I just don't think
>it can be correctly called a fact, no matter how much convincing evidence
>there is for it.
>
>Adrian Tanner, Dept of Anthropology, Memorial University, St John's,
>Newfoundland, Canada. A1C 5S7. email atanner@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Tel 709 737
>8868 fax 737 8686
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