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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Harold E. Robbins
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:06
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Daniel Packman wrote:

> In article <NrBBd.9857$iC4.5318@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> Harold E. Robbins <herobbins@netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>.......  However not all 
>>of us are called to be evolutionists.
> 
> 
> I don't know what you mean by this term "evolutionist".
> Do you call people who observe and calculate results
> of gravitational theory gravitationalists?
> 

No, I call those who design a theory about the origin of the universe 
based upon observations that life adapts to change, evolutionists.

> 
>> Many of us find it strange that a 
>>three legged leghorn chicken is not expected to develop into a 
>>four-legged one if evolution is true.
> 
> 
> Your question is posed as more of a statement.
> And evolution has nothing to do with a given creature
> developing into another.
> 

So I hear tell!  Yet when you ask how different species come into being 
the process of evolution is explained.

> 
>> By the way, I know there are many 
>>such anomalies and that a two-headed snake is not necessarily involved 
>>in evolving into a new species.  It is just that evolution has so many 
>>holes in the theory that some uf us have followed a more logical 
>>approach where the evidence is much more sure-footed.
> 
> 
> As long as you realize that your perceived "holes" and "sure-footed"
> approach have nothing to do with science, fine.
> 

There are those who study science and those who build a religion out of 
one of the theories of science.

Harold
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