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Article #8475Re: evolution?(please read)
From: R. Tang
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
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In article <v87u3kg77bw.fsf@phouka.watson.ibm.com>, Mark C. Chu-Carroll <_mcc_@watson.ibm.com> wrote: > >jgardner@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (John Gardner) writes: >> >> No FACT of evolution where one species has led >> to another. Change within species to an extremely limited >> degree yes, but nothing that would justify the _miraclulous_ >> transformation of one species into another. > >You're making a surprising strong claim here, which I don't think >you can back up, but I'd be very interested if you tried. > >In order to claim that variation is possible, but that speciation is >not, you're essentially claiming that there is some ingrained limit >that prevents a large number of small changes from adding up into a >large change. Moreover, he is claiming that the hundreds of recorded instances of speciation are not valid. In other words, don't bother him with the FACTS; his mind is made up. -- Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu, Artistic Director PC Theatre Editor, Asian American Theatre Revue: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~gwangung/TC.html Declared 4-F in the War Between the Sexes
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b271,e5a72eede1eb5b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 10a7a9,e5a72eede1eb5b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a7a9,public X-Google-Thread: 10b363,e5a72eede1eb5b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b363,public X-Google-Thread: 106bde,e5a72eede1eb5b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid106bde,public From: gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang) Subject: Re: evolution?(please read) Date: 1997/05/06 Message-ID: <5ko3gb$tn4@nntp6.u.washington.edu> X-Deja-AN: 239806791 References: <862304355.15801@dejanews.com> <5kh5ea$msd$2@news.nyu.edu> <5kipjm$h5o@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <v87u3kg77bw.fsf@phouka.watson.ibm.com> Followup-To: talk.origins Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Newsgroups: sci.physics,talk.origins,bionet.biophysics,bionet.molbio.evolution NNTP-Posting-User: gwangung