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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:39:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > Not to mention that there
> > is no evidence of intermediary life forms necessary to support the THEORY -
> > only clearly delineated specific and vastly different species that reproduce
> > "after their kind" just like the primitive bible states.
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> Anti-logic. Again, your position is depending on what evolutionary theory • lacks.
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> Incidentally, the "intermediary life-forms" argument is an old chestnut in the
> Creationist trove--it dates from before the discovery of Archaeopteryx, from • before
> the discovery of late synapsid reptiles (the intermediaries between reptiles • and
> mammals--palaeontologists *still* can't decide what they were) and from before • the
> theory of punctuated equilibrium.
And they have in fact found intermediary forms that predate Archaeopteryx
recently in China (or was it Mongolia, sorry, I forget). A more definite mix
of dinosaur and bird.
There are plenty of intermediary forms; the creationist simply do not admit to
them.
Bruce
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| (...) Like? (...) Anti-logic. Evolution and biblical Special Creation aren't the only two choices. And evolution does not "like" or "dislike" the fossil record (although we all can dream of having every creature that ever lived preserved somehow, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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