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To: Ichneumon
At the risk of oversimplification, evolutionary theory deals with "how and why", whereas evolutionary histories deal with "where and when".

Then tell us how and why the dinosarus evolved feathers. Better yet, why don't you go back and tell us how and how and why the first living self replicating cell "evolved." Since that only involves one cell that would obviously be easier to explain the "how and why" than explaining "how and why" a 5 ton feathered dinosaur evolved from a..... what did the dinosaurs evolve from, anyway?

107 posted on 09/17/2005 10:19:08 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe; Ichneumon
Better yet, why don't you go back and tell us how and how and why the first living self replicating cell "evolved."

given:
1. large population of identical single-cell organisms, all dependent upon the same environment for nourishment and habitat.
2. ambient radiation
3. time

result:
1. large population of non-identical single cell organisms, with a wide range of genetic mutations (some lethal, some maladaptive, some trivial, some advantageous in one way, some advantageous in another way, some simultaneously advantageous AND disadvantageous, etc...), all competing in the same environment for nourishment and habitat.
2. a changed competitive paradigm

that was a ridiculously easy exercise of basic theory.

110 posted on 09/17/2005 10:27:44 AM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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