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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: Re. Of all the things, Ken!
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 11:58:42 EDT
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> 
> I said:
> 
> "EVOLUTION IS A THEORY ABOUT A PROCESS THAT HAPPENED LONG, LONG AGO
> AND FAR, FAR AWAY AND NOBODY EVER SAW IT, AND IT HAPPENED, WE SPECULATE
> UNDER PROCESSES NOT NOW HAPPENING - 'life' arising from non-life in the
> great cosmic Cambell's soup kitchen."
 
This has nothing to do with evolution.

> Keebler (what's your first name, guy?) responded:
> 
> Since when did evolution stop?  Are you kidding me or what?
> No wonder you are griping about evolution!  You don't even know
> what it is!
> 
> ************************
> 
> Look.  (Tom, Dick or Harry)  Live long and prosper, but get some new
> specs for your nose or something.
> 
> If you READ what I wrote you will see that I am refering to 'life arising
> from non-live', A PROCESS THAT NO ONE SAYS IS HAPPINING TODAY!!!!!!  And
> that everyone (except you evidently) says happened under processes that
> were the result of conditions that DO NOT exist today because the earth
> was a different place physically.  I was NOT, clearly, talking about the
> claim that species, etc., evolution does not happen today although we could
> indeed talk about that.
> 
> WHO doesn't understand evolution????

Good question, since evolution has nothing to say about origins. You
however have said that it does, in your above definition. Care
to post a correction?

> I accept your humble apology for misreading, misunderstanding, and not
> knowing what you were talking about.
>
> Ken Arndt

We await yours.

Thanks in advance,

Padraig Houlahan.