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DBlevins
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Message 120 of 199 (31716)
02-08-2003 1:27 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by peter borger
01-08-2003 7:19 PM


Peter,
The argument of the fossil record's incompleteness as evidence for your position is specious. The supposed lack of transitional forms has two good reasonings behind it. 1) The fact that everything that dies doesn't become fossilized 2) Evolutionary change is episodic. By the way, Paleontologists have discovered many examples of transitional forms. If you have time I recomend you read:
Thewissen, J. G. M. and M. Aria 1994. Fossil evidence for the origin of aquatic locomotion in archaeocete whales. Science 263: 210-12.
Evolution is a fact: it is the mechanism that is open to debate.
By the way, this is my first post but hopefully not my last.

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DBlevins
Member (Idle past 3796 days)
Posts: 652
From: Puyallup, WA.
Joined: 02-04-2003


Message 121 of 199 (31717)
02-08-2003 1:41 AM
Reply to: Message 58 by peter borger
01-15-2003 9:34 PM


Peter,
PB: THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHAT THE GUToB PREDICTS. It is however NOT evolutionism. Evolve = slowly developing, like a story plot develops. It is from Latin: evolvere.
DB: First of all, the word "evolution" is from the latin root -evolutio- which means "to unroll".
After reading your posts I begin to wonder if you are not a preformationist in disguise?

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