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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re. Of all the things, Ken!
Message-ID: <445@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 17:04:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 17:04:38 1985
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In article <2011@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes:
>
>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."
>
>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!
>
>************************
>
>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.
>
	Ah, now I understand how we misunderstood one-another! You
originally said that EVOLUTION is not happening today, when what you
really meant is that Abiogenises is not happening today. The two
things are entirely seperate theories, being studied by scientists
in entirely different specialists. In the scientific community
the term evolution is restricted to the theory(or theories) about
the origin of *species* from one-another.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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