Posted by Tom on September 16, 1999 at 16:18:42:
In Reply to: claims posted by rpcman on September 15, 1999 at 16:13:41:
The only evidences of macroevolution that I'm familiar with
are based on speculative interpretations. Even where the fossil records
seems to suggest such changes, (and these instances are rare), there is NO evidence
that natural selection plus mutation is capable of producing them. That is
unless you think computer simulations (teleologically orchestrated by
Richard Dawskins) are compelling. I would like to see the real thing. A lab-induced organism that has a complex
organ that it previously lacked. Tropical birds losing the capacity to
fly don't impress me.
Tom
: : The issue is the exaggerated claims that many
: : scientists make about the explanatory breadth of evolutionary mechanisms.
: You forgot the other side of the issue. The exaggerated claims of creationists that macroevolution can't and hasn't taken place. The exaggerations of scientists are very mild by comparison.