Re: [asa] Re: Cosmological vs. Biological Design

With Ted I also read Aristotle as holding the fixity of species. I've not
had a chance to challenge a YEC like Gary Parker when he claims that "The
Greeks believed in evolution."

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; "David Campbell" <pleuronaia@gmail.com>;
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Re: Cosmological vs. Biological Design

>I do have the strong impression that the fixity of species predates
>Linnaeus
> by millenia. Aristotle and Plato both maintained it, and if not always
> unquestioned it was the standard assumption up to around the mid-18th
> century. Linnaeus himself questioned it, incidentally, in a few instances
> of apparent hybridization in plants.
>
> Ted
>
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