----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Evolution Question
> At 08:12 AM 4/13/02 -0500 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: > >No one alive today has observed Julius Caesar, either. Nonetheless, > >we are able to confirm his existence through secondary sources. > > > >It's a bogus argument, and one that depends entirely upon mildly > >clever word-twisting. > > Now wait a second - I happen to believe in evolution just as much as the > next geologist, but it doesn't bother you at all that we have *never* > observed speciation? I mean, bacteria produce generations *very* > rapidly. If no scientist has ever been able to produce speciation in > bacteria, I think that that signals a *major* flaw in our understanding of > evolution. > How do you know that speciation has never been observed? Its been stated as if fact several times, but I think its time to challange that statement. Government labs have created new diseases: True or False? I think that would satisfy speciation. xponent Question Everything Maru rob
