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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
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Subject: Re: Re. Of all the things, Ken!
Message-ID: <5268@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:38:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 16:38:17 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.

The "Theory of Evolution" is a theory about processes happening today.
That one extremely small portion of it may be taken out of context and
used incorrectly, as you did, is par for the course.  All of the original
*processes* are proceeding now, as they were then.  Periods when "natural
laws", or in this case chemical interactions, are suspended, are a mark
of the "Creationist Theory" and should not be attributed to the "Theory
of Evolution", which specificly denies them.  Not only did you attribute
such periods to the "Theory of Evolution" in your first paragraph, after
being corrected by Ernest Hua, you do it again.

No wonder you are griping about evolution, you don't even know what it
means.

Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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