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Subject: It's a pity that God has vacated Europe.
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 11:19:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 11:19:06 1987
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This is in response to the reference to Dawkins' three books
*promoting* Neo-Darwinism (hereinafter just Darwinism).

	No proof for speciation by natural selection has ever been
presented - nor will it ever be - because it does not exist. The
supposed process is fictitous.

	Believers in the Darwinian fantasy seem to think that just
because they can verbalize a scenario in the appropriate terms it
becomes fact. But the best they can do is:
	1. Offer meaningles interpolations of the fossil record. (If
	   it were complete, it would prove Darwinism. It must be
	   incomplete because we *know* Darwinism is true. Therefore
	   we are justified in interpolating "smooth connecting links."
	   It thus proves Darwinism.
	2. Offer meaningless extrapolations of observations in nature.
	   (If we could watch long enough, we could see a brand new
	   species arise a gene at a time, not just different beaks
	   or colors, but whole new creatures. Again, you must *assume*
	   Darwinism is true to make such a conclusion.)

	Many seem to think that Darwinism must be right by default
since the only alternative they can see is Creationism. This is more
hogwash. Both are wrong. Neither is science. Both are religion. At
least the creationists admit to an element of faith. The Darwinists are 
unable to see that they are no different.

	Darwinism, in the spirit of the scientific method, is no more
than a hypothesis (with ample evidence to refute it), since there has
been no observation to qualify it as a theory.

	There have been many changes in the lifeforms on this planet
through time. Many new species have arisen, and many have perished.
But this has nothing to do with proving speciation by natural selec-
tion. The real process of speciation - whatever it is - is far more
sophisticated.

	Natural selection works to *preserve* species.

	Recommended reading -
		
		Darwin Retired: An Appeal to Reason
                                  by Norman MacBeth