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

From: Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu>
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 08:21:07 EDT

>>> "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> 10/10/06 10:29 PM
>>>writes:

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."

Ted comments:
Well, some Greeks (and Romans) did propose an evolutionary scheme, in some
cases strikingly similar to Darwin's ideas. Empedocles is an example.
Lucretius affirmed a purely random, naturalistic way to produce living
things by natural selection. Darwin had nothing on him except more
evidence.

ted
 

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