re: fossil man again

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:04:12 -0500

Jim quoted Glenn

><<My question is whether you do this in reverse. Do you eliminate
>naturalistic explanation for human origins?>>

Jim reaponded
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>No. If Naturalism runs into a wall, I simply do not ignore the wall, or assume
>"Someday, there will be no wall."

There's a difference of opinion about the size and even the existence of a
wall. You assert that it exists, so you don't do research in evolution.
Fine. Others are willing to continue tackling the problems of evolution
research. But before you write them off, remember that others have
encountered walls that they were able to overcome. I quote from Keith R.
Symon's book, "Mechanics"(Addison-Wesley 1960), p 262: "These results would
be somewhat more difficult to prove by computing the gravitational forces
directly, as the reader can verify. Indeed, it took Newton twenty years!"
Do you suppose some of Newton's colleagues said to him, "Isaac, you've hit
a wall. Why don't you go on to something more fruitful?"?
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