Re: evolution v. creation
Chris White (chris_white@mail.utexas.edu)
14 Aug 1995 15:54:46 GMT
roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) wrote:
> <snip>...
> Actually, transplantation is another explanation that is commonly
>overlooked. There are few ecotopes that do not contain an element of
>life that came from "outside". Why should the ecotope called planet
>earth be any different?
>Robert
Well, there is the matter of extensive fossil evidence. While critics do
seize on gaps in the fossil record to indict evolutionary theory, there is
all the same a large amount of consistent, chrononologically arranged data
to show bifurcation, adaptation, and extinction ... that is, natural
selection as exposed to exotic species introduction. Insistence on some
outside agent is dependent on some separate aesthetic, and most scientists
would reject it using "Ocham's razor."
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Chris White chris_white@mail.utexas.edu
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