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- From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Bales is a liar: evidence - one case
- Message-ID: <102261@bu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:15:27 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.020308.13995@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <5X58TB12w165w@kalki33>
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- Organization: animal -- coelomate -- deuterostome
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- In article <5X58TB12w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
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- >An intelligent engineer...
- >... would probably use a basic plan that could be modified by
- >some simple adjustments.
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- >Kalki Dasa
-
- Yes, Kalki this is precisely what an intelligent engineer would do.
- This would, however, be evident because traits would "mixed and
- matched" across taxa. However, this is not the pattern seen in
- biological characters. They are distributed in a nested (or
- hierarchical) pattern. This (along with evidence that traits
- are modified with descent) are two strong lines of support for
- evolutionary biology.
-
- Try this Kalkster. Get a botany book. Now using the following
- characters: presence of -- stomata, swimming sperm, xylem, dominant
- sporophye generation, pollen, seeds, double fertilization, flowers
- and fruits and arrange the following plant groups in the simplest
- logical way: liverworts, mosses, ferns, cycads, conifers, angio-
- sperms. (Alternately, pick any characters and any groups of plants
- you chose... it's not going to matter.)
-
- Now tell me again how an intelligent designer would have done it.
-
- Chris Colby --- email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu ---
- "'My boy,' he said, 'you are descended from a long line of determined,
- resourceful, microscopic tadpoles--champions every one.'"
- --Kurt Vonnegut from "Galapagos"
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