Re: Fact and theory of evolution

From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 16:46:13 EDT

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    Would the observed process be better called "natural selection" and the
    theory of the origin of life or the taxa by natural selection be better
    called "evolution"?

    Jay

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    From: "bivalve" <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
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    Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:46 PM
    Subject: Fact and theory of evolution

    > I do not know if it is exactly what Steve Gould was thinking of, but my
    graduate advisor distinguished between the fact of evolution as the observed
    evidence of change in organisms over time (whether the changes observed in
    human history or in the geologic record) and the theory of evolution as the
    various explanations proposed to account for these changes.
    >
    > Dr. David Campbell
    > Old Seashells
    > University of Alabama
    > Biodiversity & Systematics
    > Dept. Biological Sciences
    > Box 870345
    > Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
    > bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
    >
    > That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
    Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
    Droitgate Spa
    >
    >

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