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Author Topic:   Proof of evolution!!!
PaulK
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Message 14 of 110 (263999)
11-29-2005 3:01 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Christian7
11-28-2005 5:17 PM


The OP does not actually look like a serious attempt at an argument. Nevertheless sicne a serious answer has been requested here it is.
While the fossil record demolished the old idea of "fixity of species" it was not the key ptoof of evolution.
Evolutionary theory succeeded for the following reasons whcih are not strongly related to the fossil record:
1) It explained why taxonomy formed a nested hierarchy
2) Most importantly it explained biogeography. Both Darwin and Wallace did signiicant work in this area - and that is no coincidence.
3) There was a workable explanation based on observation
None of these applies to the example in the original post. Thus the OP does not come even close to representing the reasoning behind the acceptance of evolution.

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Message 17 of 110 (264021)
11-29-2005 6:16 AM
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11-29-2005 5:37 AM


Reproduction with variation is one of the observations referred to in my point 3.

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