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Granny Magda
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Message 9 of 20 (502874)
03-13-2009 8:06 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Taq
03-13-2009 2:51 PM


The Coral Fungus of Life?
How about this; the coral fungus of life.
For the record, I thought that the New Scientist cover was needlessly sensationalist. It came in for a lot of criticism from prominent scientists and has been waved around by gleeful creationists from the moment it was published.
The tree of life hasn't been felled. It has, as one would hope for a metaphor that represents a modern theory, been refined and adapted to reflect new evidence. The discovery of phenomena like HGT don't demolish our previous knowledge, they add to it. And guess what; this is how science is supposed to work. Where's the problem?
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