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Re: Macro-Evolution - Impossible!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:09:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> REVISED:
> 1) Do strata (layers of sediment) support a progressive, over millennia,
> approach which reveals the progression (simple forms leading to more
> complicated forms) of life through time? Or is there a better explanation
> (hypothesis) which fits the evidence?
I still have a quibble, to wit, with the use of "progression" and/or the use
of "simple to more complicated". That's the way that it seems to have come
out in this case, but that's not necessarily an implication. If conditions
change radically enough, evolution may occur in either complexity direction,
I would think.
That is, small mammals are not necessarily more complex (depending on your
complexity metric) than brontosauri.
> REVISED:
> 2) Does the fossil record support (not contradict the predictions of)
> macro-evolution as a mechanism - a life-form progression whereby simple forms
> of life lead to more complicated forms?
Same quibble.
++Lar
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| (...) Ok - REVISED AGAIN: 1) Do strata (layers of sediment) support a progressive, over millennia, approach which reveals the progression (simple forms leading to more complicated forms, or vice versa: one type changing into another type) of life (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Thank you. (...) REVISED: 1) Do strata (layers of sediment) support a progressive, over millennia, approach which reveals the progression (simple forms leading to more complicated forms) of life through time? Or is there a better explanation (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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