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Re: Randy to Katinka:macroevolution

Nov 23, 1999 03:30 PM
by WLR7D


The evidences you cite for macroevolution are a matter of forcing the facts
to fit the theory.  Macroevolution may occur but not by the mechanisms
popularized-mutations and selection.

Think on this for a minute.  According to evolution we have eyes because they
make us more fit.  Problem is, anything less than a perfectly functioning
complete eye is a hindrance.  Therefore all the zillions of steps necessary
to evolve an eye would create less fit creatures which according to natural
selection would be removed from the population.  But if the intermediary
steps necessary to evolve the eye were culled out by selection, then our
ancestors would have been culled.  If they were culled, then we do not exist.
 But we do.  Thus the problem of mechanism.

This is a really interesting problem from a philosophical standpoint.  It
seems to point to a mechanism for our existence outside of presently
understood science.  Right up our alley right?
Randy


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