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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Not Surprising, Twice
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:52:39 EDT
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> >> [Dan Boskovich]
> >> For example, concerning the fossil record, the creation  model  would
> >> predict  a  sudden  and  abrupt appearance of highly complex forms of
> >> life without evidence of ancestral or transitional forms according to
> >> the evolutionary model.
> >>
> >> Since this is what the  fossil  record  has produced, this  would  be
> >> scientific evidence of creation.

    Actually, according to what little I know of creation theory, the creation
model would predict a sudden and abrupt appearence of all species which 
currently exist, plus all species which have subsequently become extinct.
This is contradictory to the evidence.  Any explanations, creationists?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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     She was a low-down hoo-oochy koocher.
     She was the roughest, meanest frail.
     But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale." - idunno (mail me if you do!)