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Author Topic:   Why Evolution is science
Straggler
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Message 111 of 200 (374355)
01-04-2007 11:05 AM
Reply to: Message 110 by Casey Powell
01-04-2007 10:51 AM


Re: Yeah.....take those blinders off your eyes, its YECS coming through!
Evolution by means of natural selection has everything to do with variation, speciation and common descent.
How exactly are NS and evolution mutually exclusive and on what predictive scientific evidence do you base this assertion?
Darwin's main purpose and drive was to establish a Philosophy known by most intelligent Philosophers as Naturalism and then call it "Science."
Unfortunately you are judging others by the low standards of creationists rather than on the facts. Just because creationists decide what they believe to be true and then set out to provide "evidence" does not mean that scientists take this same topsy turvy, back to front route to establishing real scientific conclusions.
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

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Straggler
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Message 122 of 200 (374381)
01-04-2007 12:18 PM
Reply to: Message 113 by Casey Powell
01-04-2007 11:58 AM


Re: Yeah.....take those blinders off your eyes, its YECS coming through!
Natural Selection does not guide the change within Speciation.
What? On what grounds exactly do you assert this (without endlessly quoting others - ideally!!)
Some arctic species are white, which have no enemy to fear, as the polar bear, the gyrfalcon, the arctic eagle-owl, the snowy owl, and even the stoat; and therefore, in these, the whiteness can only be to preserve the temperature of their bodies
It does not take a genius to see that being relatively undetectable is of benefit to both hunter and prey. A bright red polar bear may well be spotted by it's intended prey long before a purely white one.
The hunter - prey arms race is a common theme in evolution by natural selection and wholly consistent with this theory and with the evidence we find in nature.

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