From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 15:42:20 EDT
>From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
SNIP most of this interesting contribution....
> The interesting thing about this concept is that it does answer the
> questions and fit the data. It explains the slow evolution of life for
> nearly 3 billion years. It explains the hard shells. It explains the
> 'sudden' development of new species. It explains the 'sudden' appearance of
> phyla. It explains why the world of anmals changed so radically that the
> rocks which were being deposited at that time, split geologic history in
> two--the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic--the world of dark and the world of
> light.
Glenn,
Do you think that this explanation will satisfy the IDers' demand for
detailed and "causally specific" accounts of exactly how things happened at
the molecular level? Won't this be labeled as merely one more "just-so
story"? ;-)
Howard
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