Posted by rpcman on August 28, 1998 at 12:11:27:
In Reply to: More of the same posted by GaDS on August 27, 1998 at 20:11:50:
: I'm still waiting to hear why scientists haven't been able to duplicate in labs...
Did you not follow Carlos' link? Here it is again.
: ... what is supposedly occuring in nature.
Supposedly? You should read Ridley or Goldschmidt. Speciation has certainly been witnessed in nature.
: Isn't there? You obviously haven't looked closely enough.
I see design--design by cumulative natural selection. Looking closely will show you that you have to ignore the flaws inherient in natural selection to come up with any intelligence involved in the design.
: Natural selection states in the competition for limited resources those organisms better suited to utilizing resources will survive at the expense of those less fit, resulting in the favoring of certain inheritable traits. Darwin used this mechanism to explain speciation.
That's not progression. That's adaptation. Progression has a goal in mind. Evolution has no goal but survival and procreation.
: In the case of the former the explanation is worthless, and in the later the theory fails as it is unable to account for a facet of the system it purports to explain.
And putting a god more powerful than the universe on top of this makes it worth more?
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