RE: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins

The fact that dust in the air blocks sunrays, plants die, and therefore
dinosaurs starve has nothing to do with any particular theory. If
someone is suffocated, then that someone dies. That has nothing to do
with evolutionary theory. The fact that things change with time is not
what evolutionary theory is all about!

Moorad

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From: Pim van Meurs [mailto:pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:25 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins

Variation are historical events that are not explainable by evolutionary
theory either :-)

Mass extinctions are an important part of evolutionary theory and
evolutionary theory can deal with the appearance and disappearance of
the dinosaurs to the same extent as it can deal with the arrival of new
genetic information via other natural processes.

Mass extinctions are explainable and form an important part of
evolutionary history. That evolutionary theory cannot predict when or
how mass extinctions may happen, this does not mean that evolutionary
theory cannot explain these. The K-T extinction and other extinctions
caused changes in environmental conditions which caused many species to
go extinct. if that is not an (extreme form) of natural selection...

On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:

Mass extinctions are historical events that are not explainable by
evolutionary theory since the theory was not able to predicate them. Do
all the suicides committed have something to do with evolution? Let us
not lose our commonsense by adhering too strongly to particular
worldviews.

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Received on Wed Nov 29 13:48:44 2006