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Chiroptera
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Message 32 of 80 (371470)
12-21-2006 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by 4Pillars
12-21-2006 5:47 PM


It's the over-all pattern that counts
You are correct, Pill, in that a few common features, whether in morphology or in genetics, doesn't prove things one way or another. But I wrote a couple of posts in another thread detailing how it is the pattern in the common features that provide good evidence for common descent. And once we accept common descent, it is not such a bad idea to use the degree of similarity to determine who our closest cousins are.
My posts are:
http://EvC Forum: INTELLIGENT DESIGN: An Engineer’s Approach -->EvC Forum: INTELLIGENT DESIGN: An Engineer’s Approach
http://EvC Forum: INTELLIGENT DESIGN: An Engineer’s Approach -->EvC Forum: INTELLIGENT DESIGN: An Engineer’s Approach

I have always preferred, as guides to human action, messy hypothetical imperatives like the Golden Rule, based on negotiation, compromise and general respect, to the Kantian categorical imperatives of absolute righteousness, in whose name we so often murder and maim until we decide that we had followed the wrong instantiation of the right generality. -- Stephen Jay Gould

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Chiroptera
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Message 46 of 80 (371672)
12-22-2006 3:45 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by 4Pillars
12-21-2006 6:27 PM


Re: It's the over-all pattern that counts
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Similarly, in your case (OT), if a malfunction in a printing press caused a book to be printed with every page doubled, it would not be more informative than the proper book.
This is off-topic, so I won't do more than just point out that this doesn't address the points I made in those posts. I invite you or anyone else to dispute my claims in the appropriate threads.

I have always preferred, as guides to human action, messy hypothetical imperatives like the Golden Rule, based on negotiation, compromise and general respect, to the Kantian categorical imperatives of absolute righteousness, in whose name we so often murder and maim until we decide that we had followed the wrong instantiation of the right generality. -- Stephen Jay Gould

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