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Re: Macro-Evolution - Impossible!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:26:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> That is, small mammals are not necessarily more complex (depending on your
> complexity metric) than brontosauri.
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> > 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?
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> Same quibble.
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> ++Lar
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
through time? Or is there a better explanation (hypothesis) which fits the
evidence?
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, or vice versa: one type changing into
another type?
-Jon
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| (...) IANAP (I am not a paleontologist), but I'm not sure that the fossil record shows either of these things. It shows the spatial and historical pattern of life on earth (what lived where, when), but we can only infer the evolutionary process from (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Macro-Evolution - Impossible!
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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