From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 08:55:20 MST
On Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:57 PM Samantha Atkins samantha@objectent.com
wrote:
> > If you're referring to this link, I don't follow. Obviously anyone
> > attacking evolution is going to attract creationists, fanatical and
> > otherwise, but the guy is referring to works such as Stuart
> > Kauffman's.
>
> At this point anyone "attacking evolution" is a damn fool until proven
> otherwise. Evolution is fact. The preciese mechanisms by which it
> occurs naturally and mechanisms that can be used by an evolutionary
> process are open to speculation and debate. But the two should not be
> conflated.
This is precisely the point I was trying to make earlier in this thread by
separating evolution (the What happened) and evolutionary theory/explanation
(the Why it happened).
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
Film recommendation: "The Color of Paradise."
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