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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
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Subject: Re: Not Surprising, Twice
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 01:41:20 EDT
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With respect to intermediate forms:
>
> >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?

One very nice reference to intermediates is contained in Ashley Montagu's
collection of pro-evolution essays _Science and Creationism_ (Oxford Press,
1984). Contained therein is an essay by Roger Cuffy of Penn State University
called "Paleontologic Evidence and Organic Evolution", which contains
citations to approximately 170 articles in the paleontological literature,
all concerning studies of various intermediate forms. In Cuffy's words,

"Consequently, after carefully considering the implications of the fossil
record, we must conclude that that record represents the remains of gradually
and continuously evolving, ancestor-descendent lineages, uninterrupted
by special creative acts, and producing succesive different species which
eventually become so divergent from the initial form that they constitute
new major kinds of organisms."
-- 
Lyle McElhaney
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