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- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Subject: Re: Ideology and Indoctrination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.183737.5615@aurora.com>
- Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Organization: The Aurora Group
- References: <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:37:37 GMT
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- In article <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu> philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson) writes:
- >An excellent example is the standard Darwinist delusion that the
- >peppered moth example illustrates "evolution" in any non-trivial
- >sense.
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- I'm glad you think the principle of natural selection is trivial.
- Now, if you think the same of random mutation and genetic drift,
- you have all but accepted the theory of evolution.
-
- >It is pathetic to see advanced biology
- >students (or faculty members) say that natural selection does not
- >have to be "the least bit creative" to be "the primary mechanism
- >responsible for bringing about, from a single common ancestor,
- >all of the species on earth and their phenotypic features."
-
- Does the word "creative" mean anything when you use it?
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- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
- isaak@aurora.com generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
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