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From: daveh@tekcrl.UUCP (Dave Hatcher)
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Subject: Colin Patterson's question
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Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 23:46:22 EDT
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>In a 1981 lecture at the American Museum of Natural History, Colin
>Patterson, a senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural
>History, remarked that there was not one thing he knew about evolution.
>"The question is, can you tell me anything you know about evolution,
>any one thing that is true? ..."  He tried that question on several
>colleagues and all he received in return was silence.

>This question would seem to be the type to generate much discussion on the
>network.  What do you think?  What do you KNOW to be true about evolution?

>Tom Albrecht

	That I am me and I am here...

		Which is the exact amount that I KNOW to be true with
		any other creation model.

		Now what I am and where I am at, thats a question I've
		been pondering for quite a while now....


	Dave Hatcher