Re: My old reptile jawbones
Bill Davis (daviswh@mail.auburn.edu)
Mon, 12 Jun 1995 08:48:36 -0500 (CDT)I think the following quote found cited in a recent post of Steve is a
breathtakingly fine example of ... I know not exactly what: Stareing
straight in the face of a near impossibility and solemnly declaring that
it must be so??? It is one thing for us not to know how something
happened, that might possibly have happened; it is another to *not even
be able to imagine* how something might have happened. I mean of course,
imagine in detail, not just vaguely imagine. Note too the difference
here between this example and the other examples along the same line that
we creationists are fond of. How complex organs might arise gradually is
a big problem. How biologically necessary organs might gradually change
into some whole new function while the organism survives this change,
while indeed the organism gains a survival advantage at every step along
the way (though in this case it would appear to be losing its ability to
eat), is an important variation on the theme.
Sorry evolutionist dudes. Your case is far from made, made plausible,
made even imaginable.
>
> No problem? A popular school textbook gives an imaginative account of
> this evolution of vertebrate ear ossicles and inner ear. It ends:
>
> 'Of course, there are numerous unresolved questions about this story;
> for example, how did the mammal-like reptiles hear, and chew, while
> these fantastic changes were taking place? But despite such
> functional problems there is little doubt that it happened."
>
> (Pitman M., "Adam and Evolution", 1984, Rider & Co., London,
> pp204-206).
Bill Davis
Philosophy.