Re: Origin of Life Up in the Air -- Literally

From: Cliff Lundberg (cliff@cab.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 03:29:04 EDT

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    Stephen E. Jones wrote:

    >If it turns out that the earliest bacteria were more
    >complex than later ones, and the later bacteria `devolved' from them, this
    >would fit a creation or ID model better than an evolution model.]

    Creation, maybe, but not your progressive ID model, which has a
    designer occasionally intervening to inject new complexity; this
    implies an increase in complexity over time, not reduction and
    simplification.

    Evolutionary theory recognizes the fact of sudden beginnings
    followed by slow evolution involving reduction in number of parts.

    --Cliff Lundberg  ~  San Francisco  ~  415-648-0208  ~  cliff@cab.com



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