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Subject: I have no idea what that title meant.

Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 01/29/02 9:49am
In reply to: ozboy 's message, ""extrapolation" ... does one do that with the lights on or off??" on 01/29/02 9:28am

>Monkeys and us are not the only two similar things
>Wade, evolution can link everything to just about
>everything else.
>
>I understand your extrapolation points but the mere
>fact that you use the gene argument in that way
>doesn't serve to support...
>
>.. that is to say...it doesn't matter what genes can
>be linked other genes... the fact is: they are all
>genes.

Well, yes they are genes. But how does evolution create new types (and thus new genes)? As I explained before, we cannot simply extract the directly observable changes we see in living organisms (mutation-selection) to create new types. So why believe macroevolution can happen with these sorts of changes? Remember that both creation and evolution explain the similarities in life forms. Thus, the data do not uniquely confirm one particular theory. (By creation I mean the theory of the artificial and direct creation of the basic types of life, no supernatural factors need to be included in this theory any more than evolution.) Because both theories explain the similarities, the data do not uniquely confirm one particular theory. Thus, one cannot simply point out similarities as adequate justification to accept evolution over creation. A bit more work needs to be done here. Exactly why should one choose evolution as the best interpretation of this data?

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No title????? ozboy 02/ 3/02 2:20am

This post has a title. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/ 5/02 11:28am

I have an invisible dragon -- Ben, 02/ 5/02 3:26pm

Interpretation. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/ 6/02 8:17am

Getting on out there again -- Damoclese, 02/ 6/02 9:21am

And again. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/ 6/02 10:01am

Some more -- Damoclese, 02/ 6/02 1:14pm

And some more. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/15/02 9:24pm

Not so much more -- Damoclese, 02/23/02 5:41pm

As I see it ..... -- Don, 06/ 7/02 9:25am

A fundamental question... -- Ben, 02/ 6/02 3:09pm

A fundamental answer. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/ 7/02 6:24pm

A fundamental misconception -- Ben, 02/23/02 11:29am

Fundamental beliefs. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/24/02 12:32pm

Fundamental... ah, I can't think of any more -- Ben, 02/25/02 7:15pm

A fundamental order to the universe. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/02 5:37pm

You put the FUN in fundamental -- Ben, 03/20/02 10:43pm

Thank you. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/27/02 11:43am

You put the bop in the bop-shoo-bop-shoo-bop -- Ben, 04/ 1/02 8:40pm

Tying up. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/25/02 2:22pm

Thank you. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/27/02 11:59am

Thank you. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/28/02 10:12am

Symbolilc Pitfall? -- Damoclese, 03/28/02 12:02pm

Not yet. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/ 1/02 12:50pm

How do you solve a problem like the God-a? -- Ben, 04/ 1/02 8:02pm

Elucidation. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/15/02 1:11pm

There is no "why," there is only Zeul -- Ben, 04/15/02 5:13pm

Huh? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 10:22am

I'll tell you why you're wrong, why you're really really wrong -- Ben, 04/16/02 2:38pm

Lol. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/18/02 1:50pm

Why don't we all just bow out? (except for Wade) -- Ben, 04/20/02 4:34pm

On bowing out. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/25/02 2:19pm

Still a potential pitfall looms -- Damoclese, 04/ 1/02 10:45pm

How so? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/15/02 2:15pm

Like This -- Damoclese, 04/15/02 3:58pm

Huh -- David, 04/16/02 2:12am

A response. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 10:47am

Christian God is greatest possible? -- David, 04/16/02 1:20pm

Perhaps, but that would require an additional case. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 2:37pm

Hm? -- David, 04/16/02 9:50pm

Definitions. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/18/02 12:24pm

Relevence? -- David, 04/18/02 9:17pm

To me you are correct Dave. -- Don, 06/ 7/02 7:31pm
Yes. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 06/21/02 3:52pm

response -- drago, 06/ 3/02 1:48pm

Not like that. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 10:39am

Muddling a simple point -- Damoclese, 04/16/02 3:47pm

Attempting to get a strait answer. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/18/02 1:14pm

Trying to keep my patience -- Damoclese, 04/18/02 7:06pm

I'll try to keep mine as well. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/24/02 11:59am

Cutting to the chase -- Damoclese, 04/24/02 2:22pm

What's the chase? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/26/02 11:05am

Foxes -- Damoclese, 04/26/02 12:19pm

Logical flaw perhaps -- David, 04/15/02 3:00am

Continued -- David, 04/15/02 3:18am

Please clarify. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 11:03am

Hehe -- David, 04/16/02 1:16pm

Tee hee. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/18/02 12:06pm

*giggle* -- David, 04/18/02 12:57pm

Ha ha. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/18/02 1:29pm

Hohoho -- David, 04/18/02 9:29pm

toung twister -- Emma, 12/22/02 7:04pm

Perhaps not. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/16/02 10:50am

you now have a definition ........... -- Don, 06/ 7/02 1:28pm

not this again. .......... -- Don, 06/ 7/02 10:06am

Dream a Little Dream. -- ozboy, 02/ 6/02 9:49am

Ok Wade, if logic........... -- Don, 06/ 7/02 3:23pm