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Perhaps our definitions are different

Posted by: Robert on May 07, 1999 at 10:14:57:

In Reply to: I already have. Want me to say it again? posted by Farinata on May 04, 1999 at 14:20:18:

Farinata, my dear friend,

Perhaps we are defining "species" differently here. Dr. Michael Behe states:

"Darwinian theory successfully accounts for a variety of modern changes. Scientists have shown that the average beak size of Galapagos finches changed in response to altered weather patterns. Likewise, the ratio of dark- to light-colored moths in England shifted when pollution made light-colored moths more visible to predators. Mutant bacteria survive when they become resistant to antibiotics. These are all clear examples of natural selection in action. But these examples involve only one or a few mutations, and the mutant organism is not much different from its ancestor. Yet to account for all of life, a series of mutations would have to produce very different types of creatures. That has not yet been demonstrated."

Perhaps this is a minority view but many evolutionists are seriously considering his work these days. (Lest I be accused of arrogance, isolation, and idiocy again)

I'd place your "evidences for species" in the catagories of gene pool isolation or hybrid barriers, not speciation.

As for the Martian species argument, er hum, I appreciate your free thinking here.

God Bless you, dear friend.

Robert


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