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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Trees Falling in the Forest
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 16:39:02 EDT
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> [Keith Doyle]
> Again, evolution does not state the METHOD, (mutation or otherwise) that
> causes speciation.  Evolution postulates that it DOES occur, because of
> observed evidence, not particularly HOW.  All this concentration on
> mutation is so far away from creationist evidence it's not funny anymore.
> Actually this is all just as good evidence that chucko the clown created
> the universe last week.

This is utterly unsound.  You're glossing over the distinction between
what more careful writers call "the fact of evolution" vs. "the theory
of evolution".

The theory DOES (or ought to) make some statements about mechanism.  If
not, then what you end up with is (must I say it again?) description,
not mechanism.  And if one doesn't know the mechanism, how does one
know the description is the correct one?

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