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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Vestigal Organs
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 17:29:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 17:29:42 1985
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> 
> > [Paul Torek] 
> > Indeed, many insect species have "vestigal" wings, which are small 
> > non-functional organs sitting right where the wings were/are on the
> > closest related species.  If there's a God who created all species
> > from scratch, He must be trying awful hard to trick us into believing
> > in evolution!
> 
> No, just trying to see how many people can look at degeneration
> and say "evolution!"  Break comma give me a.
> 
> Seems to me that a number of creationists have mentioned degeneration
> as a component of "creation models".  How is your example supposed to be
> inconsistent with that?  Or are you trying, in a roundabout way, to
> support creationists?
> 
The earlier example mentioned the vestigial leg bones of whales.  Do you
really mean to agree with evolutionists that these are *indeed* vestigial
leg bones, and that whales *did indeed* evolve (sorry, degenerate) from 
land animals, just as we have been saying all this time?  If so, you will 
be the first Creationist I am aware of who does so!

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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