Re: Evolution!! (D. Howes)

Ed Brayton (cynic@net-link.net)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:04:48 -0400

Ron Chitwood wrote:
>
> >>>>That might be because you are not looking far enough away. You are
> discussing time frames of hundreds or at most thousands of years versus
> hundreds of thousand to millions of years.<<<<
>
> Speculation! Speculation! Scientists should not be involved with the
> metaphysics of Evolution. Their job is to present facts, repeatable
> experiments in the lab. The facts, so far, seem to be the opposite of what
> an evolutionist would like. He should swallow his bias and admit that,
> rather than go into wild flights of fancy on how evolution 'could' occur,
> given our present state of knowledge.

Ron, what theory other than evolution provides a coherent explanation
for the order of appearance of fauna on the earth? Is it just a
coincidence that the first animals to appear on earth were single-celled
creatures? Is it just a coincidence that the first amphibians to appear
on earth look the most like fish and they become progressively less
fish-like in order of appearance in more recent strata? That pattern is
repeated in every group, by the way. The first reptiles to appear are
the most amphibian like and they become increasingly different as you go
along; the first mammals are the most reptile like, and they become
increasingly different as you go along. What other explanation is there
for such perfect faunal succession?

Ed