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From: hopeful@fluke.UUCP (Buford Wanttruth)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Why ain't life homogenized today?
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 14:14:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 14:14:22 1985
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Hi, y'all, its me, Buford, again.  Ain't Ah pro-lific all of a sudden!  Ever   
since Ah was knee-high ta mah dear Pappy, Ah allers liked ta axe questions.
This'n hyere ya might say is a corrollary ta ma last one.  Hits taken from
Wysong's THE CREATION/EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY (pp. 278, 279).  Ah'm givin lots of
context so's Beel Jefferys won't beat up on me like he did on mah fren, Jake
(jus funnin with ya, Beel).


"I recently had occasion to view a film designed to document the fact of evolu-
tion through the mechinism of neo-Darwinism (mutations and natural selection).
The late Julian Huxley introduced the film by stating: 'All biologists accept the fact of evolution just as all astronomers and physicists accept the idea that
the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa'.  Well, with this said,   the film proceeded for the next fifteen minutes to show: (1) how melanic moths
can adapt by changing color; (2) how mosquitoes can produce offspring resistant to the action of DDT; (3) how mimulus plants can adapt to altitudes.
This evidence is taken as proof that the mechanism of mutations and natural 
selection can work.  Given this, given time, evolution in the broader sense
should occur.

Creationists do not see the evidence cited here as by any means sobering proof
of the fact of evolution.  Does this documentation of evolution through the 
transformation of moths into moths, mimulus into mimulus and mosquito into
mosquito force the belief in evloution (from 'amoeba to man') as decisively as
astronomical evidence forces the belief in a heliocentric universe?

The fossil record shows a remarkable absence of transitional forms between the 
various fauna and flora. (See Fig. 75) WHY IS LIFE NOT HOMOGENOUS TODAY WITH
MYRIADS OF INTERGRADING FORMS MAKING CLASSIFICATION IMPOSSIBLE?  (This is a 
point which Darwin himself could not understand: ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Chap. 6)
Furthermore, why was life not homogenous in the past?  Should not life abound
with partially formed organs: 20% feather, 80% scale; 75% wing, 25% leg; 60%
foot, 40% fin; 12% flower, 88% spore; 17% hoof, 83% toes; etc.  If life today
is experiencing evolution in action, where are the new nascent organs?"

  
Mah question is the one in capitals above.  What do y'all (Evolutioners and 
Creationers) thank?  Please feel free ta respond ta any of this hyere quote.



Truthfully yours,


Buford