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Author Topic:   THE END OF EVOLUTION?
Coyote
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Message 224 of 284 (506596)
04-27-2009 7:12 PM
Reply to: Message 220 by alaninnont
04-27-2009 6:38 PM


Re: End of evolution??
I am not talking about micro or macro in general. I'm talking about a new species coming out of homo sapiens. Percy said in post 143 that for speciation to occur it is required that genes don't intermingle. How can that happen with homo sapiens in todays global village?
Easy--temporal separation.
Populations often change gradually, with the resulting changes accumulating through time. And genes don't intermingle across time--its a one-way street.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Message 250 of 284 (507232)
05-03-2009 12:31 AM
Reply to: Message 249 by pcver
05-03-2009 12:16 AM


Re: Quantum Gap
...you know I regard evolution theory as untruth
Evolutionary theory, indeed any scientific theory, does not claim to be truth, Truth, TRUTH, or even TRVTH.
Theories are simply the current best explanations for a given set of facts.
But by your comment here, you have shown that you are following religious belief, TRVTH, based on such things as scripture and "divine" revelation, instead of scientific theory, based on facts and well-tested theories.
One is based on empirical evidence and replication, the other is ultimately based on someone, somewhere, saying "Trust me!"
And you fell for it.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Message 268 of 284 (507754)
05-07-2009 6:48 PM
Reply to: Message 266 by Trev777
05-07-2009 5:08 PM


Re: blasphemy
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

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