Re: Evolution as fact

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geez, ALL species have "evolved"!!! Evolution is DEFINED simply as "change
over time", is it not? If anthropologists get this screwed up, what help
are we at all?


At 06:28 PM 3/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>>
>>>At 03:14 PM 03/06/96 -0330, Adrian Tanner wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>
>>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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