From: Cliff Lundberg <cliff@cab.com>
>Well, that's it. People with macroevolutionary theories will be bothered
>by the absolute metaphysical proscription of the possibilities they
>envision. This is religion-driven science, more interested in avoiding
>what they think is creationism than in puzzling out the facts.
Cliff wheels out his old straw man again, this time elevating it to the
level of an "absolute metaphysical proscription".
This is the classic hallmark of the proponent of a crank theory. Refusing to
accept that his theory could have been rejected for its lack of merit, the
crank insists that it was rejected because of metaphysical blinkers.
As I've said before, duplication of segments and merging of symbionts are
*not* beyond the pale of mainstream evolutionary biology. It's your
particular version of them that is seriously flawed.
Richard Wein (Tich)
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