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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Dog Breath, In the Year of the Plague
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 15:01:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 15:01:09 1985
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>> [Paul DuBois]
>> In response to some of Ron Kukuk's postings, two or three people have
>> given the dog as an example of observable evolutionary change.
>> Certainly they appear to vary widely.  In reply, I offer the following.

>[Mike Huybensz]
>(Many lines of examples deleted to keep me from appearing on the list
>of biggest posters.  :-)

Hey!

>> There are, however, at least two phenomena that give me pause, so that I
>> would not try to apply this as a universal rule.
>>...
>> (ii)    Polyploidy in plants generates instant (biological) species.
>>         Mike Huybensz has been hitting us creationists on the head with
>>         this one (perhaps he would phrase it a little differently) and
>>         rightly so.  Polyploidy results in an instant reproductive
>>         barrier.

> Thanks for the complement.  It warms my heart to see acknowledgement that
> my points are telling from such a confirmed skeptic of evolution.

I guess I better knock it off, then!  I wouldn't want to appear
reasonable or anything.  :-)

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Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
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  saying that the gardener has not pulled them yet."