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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Isolation and Unique Species
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 01:24:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 28 01:24:23 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Apr-85 07:21:17 EDT
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>>>>>How could new species appear in isolated regions if they didn't evolve?
>>>    . . . <the following is advanced by Karl as a creationist explanation>
>>> 
>>>>> "There is a simple explanation.  Gawd created unique
>>>>> species everywhere, and those on the mainland mingled and mixed.
>>>>> When we got to the islands,we found some previously inaccessible species.
>>>>> A simple uniform distribution of created species answers everything."

>>>> [Paul DuBois]
>>>>Hang on a second.  Have you ever actually seen this argument used?
>>>>If so, where?  If not...be quiet.

>>> [Isaac Dimitrovsky]
>>> OK, Paul, just what is *your* explanation of this?
>>> I assume by your irritated reaction to the argument given above that
>>> you have a different one in mind.

>> [Paul DuBois]
>> No, I don't.  I meant what I said, viz. "what creationist actually
>> uses this argument?"  No acrimony implied.

> [Jeff Sonntag]
>     So should we just add this one to the list of phenomena which is easily
> explained by evolution and ignored by creationists?

Maybe.  Or maybe someone could actually come up with the creationists
who make this argument.  Or maybe someone could just admit that it's
a straw man, and quit circling around the question.

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