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- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:05:45 GMT
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- In article <C1Bsus.K38@panix.com>, arandia@panix.com (Joel Arandia) writes:
- > Wait, kids! Evolution is both a fact AND a theory(dessert topping and floor
- > wax!) Evolution is a fact. The fossil record clearly shows that later fossils
- > are very different from earlier fossils. Microevolution is an observed fact.
-
- Hey, what do you know! No one is saying that microevolution isn't a fact. The
- dispute is about macroevolution.
-
- > Evolution is a theory. How does it happen? I think when we talk about
- > evolution(the theory), we're actually talking about evolutionary processes like
- > natural selection and punctuated equilibrium. We ain't too sure how evolution
- > happens, but we can be sure that it does.
- >
- > joel d. arandia
-
- Wrong! All we can be sure is that, of the fossils we've found, according to
- present theories about dating methods, the earlier fossils are different from
- the later ones (most of the time anyway). So how are we "sure" that the origin
- of species was accomplished through evolution?
- --Ray Cote
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