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Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:48:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> "Remember, the evidence the fossil record gives us is not about *how*
> macroevolution happens, merely that it does." ++Lar
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> The fossil record as an evidence for macro-evolution has two aspects which must
> be considered:
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> 1) Do strata (layers of soil) support a progressive, over millennia, approach
> which can reveal the progression of life through time? Or is there a better
> explanation (hypothesis) which fits the evidence?
Yes, it does support a progression of life through time. You are welcome to
present a different hypothesis.
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> 2) Does the fossil record support macro-evolution as a mechanism - survival of
> the fittest, a life-form progression producing creatures better fit to survive?
Yes.
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| (...) I thought that the fossil record does not show any evidence of survival of the fittest. It is my understanding that the fossil record does show ample evidence of evolution per se, but gives no reason why. "Survival of the fittest" is a catch (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Remember, the evidence the fossil record gives us is not about *how* macroevolution happens, merely that it does." ++Lar The fossil record as an evidence for macro-evolution has two aspects which must be considered: 1) Do strata (layers of soil) (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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