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To: Junior
You've proven yourself time and again incapable of understanding the theory of evolution (even positing your own, strawman, version).

Have you no shame? You call my posting of Darwin's definition of evolution my own strawman version? How disonest can you be??????

Here it is again, the definition of evolution as Darwin said it. Posted here because the evolutionists are too dishonest to even state what their theory is and constantly attack those who oppose it by saying 'that is not evolution'. It is the evolutionists who do not wish to be 'tied down' to a specific description because that way they can dance and shuffle their way out by saying 'that is not evolution, you are ignorant' (without ever saying what the theory is of course):

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse;. a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows."
From: Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"


176 posted on 02/11/2003 7:22:35 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
What's Darwin's definition got to do with the modern theory of evolution? You see, this shows your complete ignorance of science. You seem to think science is caught 150 years in the past, whereas in reality the science of evolution has moved beyond that period. Evolution is now defined as the change in allele frequency over time. The mechanics of evolution are still debated, but the fact of evolution is not. Of course, you being mired in the past cannot see that. But, the lurkers and those who actually understand science can.
184 posted on 02/12/2003 5:44:10 AM PST by Junior (The New World Order stole your tag line)
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