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To: Dimensio; Mr. Silverback

Also, macro and micro evolution are the same process of allele frequency changes in populations over time.

To insist that one can occur and the other can't is nonsense.


127 posted on 01/11/2005 2:58:58 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: shubi
Also, macro and micro evolution are the same process of allele frequency changes in populations over time. To insist that one can occur and the other can't is nonsense.

This "distinction" is simply an ad hoc categorization designed to avoid evidence once it has become impossible to evade any other way.

It's similar to the "distinction" between "a serious charge if proven true" and "not rising to the level of impeachment" used by Clinton's defenders. Any charge that could still be denied by questioning the evidence could be admitted to the former category; anything that had been nailed on Clinton beyond doubt was assigned to the latter category (and thus didn't really count). We saw the Lewinsky affair shifted from the former to the latter before our very eyes after the DNA-stained blue dress surfaced (just as we saw Eohippus --> Equus move from "macro" to "micro" once the fossil record was filled in too thoroughly to deny any longer).

246 posted on 01/12/2005 10:02:34 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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