Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins

Evolutionary theory does not predict any selection force, only
acknowledges that they exist and finds them centrally influential in the
evolutionary process. JimA

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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>Moorad
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>From: Pim van Meurs [mailto:pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 1:09 PM
>To: Alexanian, Moorad
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins
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>On Nov 29, 2006, at 5:59 AM, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
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>>I am not defending ID but exposing the fallacy of your argument
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>>it since your arguments apply equally to Darwinian Theory of
>>evolution.
>>The theory of how the dinosaurs became extinct by a meteor impact
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>>Yucatan peninsula http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=747011#
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>>nothing to do with evolutionary theory. If Newton did not know how the
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>To state that mass extinctions have nothing to do with evolution
>ignores the relevance of such instances on understanding why there
>are no more dinosaurs left in our day and age. So yes, extinction is
>distinctly an evolutionary mechanism as it affects the species.
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>>solar system came into being, evolutionary theory certainly does not
>>explain that either from the assumptions evolutionary theory makes.
>>Similarly, with all the examples you give. Get real man!
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>Of course evolution does not explain that which it cannot explain.
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>>Moorad
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