RE: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

I believe Darwin made some obvious observations regarding differences in some animals. Surely, a given kind of animal can be manipulated to tend in the direction the tinker wants it to go. Witness dog breeding. There is no question that given some initial conditions then a system can develop according to the dynamics that governs the system and the known external conditions on the system. This is all good science. The difficult arises when prescribing the initial condition and not having the experimental data to show that the suggested outcome in the future is indeed what occurs given the external conditions. For instance, how complex animals can develop from either simpler animals or even inanimate matter. Note that in weather forecasting we know all the physics and even given the initial conditions yet forecasting is very limited indeed. Surely, the whole history of life on earth is a much more complex system and rather difficult to study.

Moorad

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Subject: Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

In a message dated 7/14/2006 8:07:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, gmurphy@raex.com writes:

        On the contrary, your insistence on forcing everything into your procrustean bed of "Darwinian" interpretation is what is narrowing.
         
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        George
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That's a characterization, not an argument.
 
The suggestion that all living organisms have adapted to survive by the laws of Darwinian evolution, and that for some strange reason this should not be applicable to human life and the evolution of human behavior is what narrows the argument.
 
I don't insist. I don't force. I recognize.
 
 
rich faussette

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