Re: Evolution defined as genetic change?

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From: Bill Williams
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:12

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In article <1992Dec9.064229.6136@news.Hawaii.Edu> Ronald A. Amundson,
ronald@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu writes:
>If anyone has any novel _alternative_
>definitions, I'd be glad to see them too.  (Not that I believe in
>definitions, mind you ... I just collect them.)  

How about change in "kind."  The "scientific creationists" like this
one:  they can define "kind" as any change large enough that we're not
likely to see it, either in the fossil record or in the laboratory. 
Poof!  There goes evolution.  Aren't definitions powerful!
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William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686

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