RE: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins

Your characterization of evolutionary theory sounds like mere double talk to me. A physicist would say that given a system with known dynamical laws; the system would develop in time given some initial condition. However, without specifying the initial condition and the dynamical laws that govern the temporal behavior of the system, the statement is too general to be of any scientific value.

Moorad

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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.
        
        Moorad
        
        
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        From: Pim van Meurs [mailto:pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com]
        Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 1:09 PM
        To: Alexanian, Moorad
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        On Nov 29, 2006, at 5:59 AM, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
        
          

                I am not defending ID but exposing the fallacy of your argument
                against
                it since your arguments apply equally to Darwinian Theory of
                evolution.
                The theory of how the dinosaurs became extinct by a meteor impact
                in the
                Yucatan peninsula http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=747011#
                has
                nothing to do with evolutionary theory. If Newton did not know how the
                    

        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.
        
          

                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!
                
                    

        Of course evolution does not explain that which it cannot explain.
        
          

                Moorad
                
                    

        
        
        
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