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To: Diamond
Not necessarily. It could imply common design rather than common ancestory.

Common design that across the range of genomes catalogued matches the expectations of common descent. A Designer who only apparently designs in nested hierarchies that appear (from the fossil record) to be modifications of earlier nested hierarchies. Yeah, right.

A designer doesn't have to match the expectations of common descent, yet the lunatic who designed life on earth apparently did so, for unfathomable reasons, according to you. If you want a design hypothesis with legs try millions of teams of competing designers, all starting with the same basic template, with the objective of destroying/subverting each others designs, and only allowed to work with successive slight modifications. A celestial God-game or a Raelian management training exercise. That is a design hypothesis that matches the evidence, but curiously we don't see that one coming from the design proponents.

353 posted on 04/19/2006 2:13:18 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Miraculous explanations are just spasmodic omphalism)
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To: Thatcherite
A Designer who only apparently designs in nested hierarchies that appear (from the fossil record) to be modifications of earlier nested hierarchies. Yeah, right.

Please demonstrate, out of the 95% of the total fossil record, one single nested hierarchy of any complex invertebrate that appears to be a modification of earlier nested hierarchies.

Cordially,

530 posted on 04/20/2006 8:56:51 AM PDT by Diamond
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