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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
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- Subject: Re: Duane T. Gish, Ph. D.
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:46:46 GMT
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- In article <1k19ppINN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org> rlg@omni (Randy garrett)
- writes:
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- }Gish regularly debates pretty well educated opponents and they
- }don't seem to find it quite so easy to cite specific counterexamples.
-
- I wish he'd get net access...
-
- }: I don't think that you'll be able to find anything to directly refute
- }: this, partly because the premise is so ludicrous. I don't suppose
- }: that Gish has a source for his "According to..." statement, hmmm?
- }: Where on earth could you find someone who would make a claim like
- }: that? And would any old invertebrate do, or did he have one of them
- }: in mind?
- }
- }ICR is pretty precise about quoting references,
-
- Not in our collective experience they're not.
-
- }so I'll bet someone did say this in print.
-
- The claim was (as I recall--I don't feel like digging it up)
- "According to evolutionists it would require 100 million years to
- evolve from an invertebrate to a fish." How much are you willing to
- bet? My hypothesis at the moment is that there is no such source.
- Since I don't expect to get Gish to admit to that, your hypothesis
- (that a source exists) should be much easier to defend--all you have
- to do is produce the quote. Care to try?
-
- }: >CLAIM #2: "Darwin cited the giraffe as an outstanding example of
- }: >natural selection. Supposedly, as a result of extended droughts, the
- }: >supply of green leaves could be obtained only at the top of the trees,
- }: >and therefore the shorter necked giraffe died off. And the giraffes
- }: >which grew longer necks survived. However, there is no evidence
- }: >whatever in the fossil record or elsewhere that giraffes with short
- }: >necks have ever existed.
- }:
- }: If you ever meet Mr. Gish, please tell him to visit some zoos and look
- }: for an animal called an okapi. You don't need a fossil record when
- }: the organism in question still exists.
- }
- }I don't believe the claim is that no animals with short necks
- }exist (my own neck, for example), just that no intermediate
- }length neck giraffes, or their direct ancestors, are known.
- }Unless you are claiming that okapis are direct ancestors?
-
- Do you know what an okapi is? Have you ever seen one? What will you
- accept as evidence of a progression if you won't accept a living
- example of an intermediate form?
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-