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To: ReignOfError; Dutchboy88; Ethan Clive Osgoode
“What's going to be there that wasn't there the first time? Evolution does not depend on abiogenesis, nor require that the process be undirected.”
LoL!

Darwinian Evolution does not require the process to be undirected?

In his work on the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, he [Darwin] takes for granted, that no sensible person would believe, that God ordained the variations of the crop and tail feathers of the pigeon, or the variations of the frame, and mental qualities of the dog. "But," he says, "if we give up the principle in one case, no shadow of reason can be assigned for the belief, that variations, which have been the groundwork through Natural Selection of the most perfectly adapted animals in the world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided."

Again, speaking against the idea that the detail of structure was made for the good of its possessor, he says: "Some believe that many structures have been created for the sake of beauty, to delight men or the Creator, or for the sake of mere variety, such doctrines, if true, would he absolutely fatal to my theory." [ref]


37 posted on 12/14/2008 11:38:37 AM PST by Fichori (I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
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To: Fichori

Thank you.


139 posted on 12/15/2008 6:34:22 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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