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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Not Surprising, Twice
Message-ID: <515@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 01:06:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 01:06:55 1985
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In article <982@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:

>As far as definitions go, for anything to fit any definition the
>object must have the features expected on the basis of the definition.
>This is hardly startling, or profound.  There is not point to or value
>in definitions otherwise.  You might not like the definition.  That is
>another question, however.

I think that was precisely *my* point.  Creationists claim there are no
transitional forms.  When transitional forms are pointed out they say
"Well, that isn't a transitional form..."  I have, on previous occasions,
tried to elicit from creationists exactly what they would expect a tran-
sitional form on the reptile-bird continuum to be -- if not the sorts of
things that we find in the fossil record.  I have yet to get an answer,
reasonable or otherwise.  Methinks they expect a unicorn...(it's a whole
lot safer if nothing can meet the criterion.)

>
>A song and dance; an assertion of a large amount of evidence coupled
>with a failure to give any.
>

Well, unlike some I am not going to list THE CASE FOR EVOLUTION -- 1E12 classes
of evidence.  Come visit me.  I can point you to several hundred linear feet
of books that constitute evidence.  Do you deny that such a volume of evidence
exists or are you just playing rhetorical games?

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>Paul DuBois	{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
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>"Danger signs, a creeping independence"                             |


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						Byron C. Howes
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