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Weyland
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Message 1 of 5 (32804)
02-21-2003 8:50 AM


I spotted this over on the Internet Infidels board
The Times & The Sunday Times
It describes (albeit briefly) the discovery of a hybrid of common groundsel and Oxford ragwort which is fertile with neither of it's parents, but is self fertile, which makes it a new

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Percy
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Message 2 of 5 (32808)
02-21-2003 9:29 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Weyland
02-21-2003 8:50 AM


Odd that the article actually says this proves Creationists are wrong, since Creationism does not reject the possibility of new species arising through hybridization.
--Percy

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Karl
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Message 3 of 5 (32810)
02-21-2003 9:47 AM


We don't have many Creationists over here, and our understandings of what they are saying are sometimes wrong.
There is the idea that Creationists say that each species was individually created. And there certainly are Creationists running around saying "no new species!"

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Percy
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Message 4 of 5 (32811)
02-21-2003 9:57 AM
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02-21-2003 9:47 AM


Karl writes:
There is the idea that Creationists say that each species was individually created. And there certainly are Creationists running around saying "no new species!"
Yeah, you're right, though this branch of Creationism creates lots of wiggle room for itself by actually saying, "No new kinds," where kinds has no clear definition.
--Percy

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abio
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Message 5 of 5 (33102)
02-24-2003 6:14 PM


I was disappointed this wasn't talked about further.

  
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