From: Josh Bembenek (jbembe@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 14:19:34 EDT
Perhaps we should turn our collective brains off, practice uncritical
thinking, and accept any quasi-science (fiction) story that comes along if
it tends to support evolution? Perhaps not only "IDers", but biochemists
and molecular phylogenists will be interesting in trying to understand the
veracity of these types of claims. But I guess when Dawkins writes it in
his next book, we'll know for sure it's true, right?
Josh
>From: "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@chartermi.net>
>To: Glenn Morton <glennmorton@entouch.net>, Asa <asa@calvin.edu>
>Subject: Re: Cambrian Explosion
>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:42:20 -0400
>
> >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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