Re: Letter to the Editor: Evolutionists want excuse

Variation exist everwhere in nature. Is this evidence of evolution?
Even in a species of deer there is considerable variation. Going
to the fossil record, variation exist in abundance. Species very
frequently appear abruptly in the fossil record with variations
already firmly established. How does one distuinguish between
gradualism and variation in a single species that remain in a state
of stasis for million even 10's of millions of years?

"NashtOn" <nana@xxxxx> wrote in message
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> Robert J. Kolker wrote:
>> NashtOn wrote:>
>>
>>>No need to refute Genesis as a possible explanation of how life was
>>>created, in order to make neo-Darwinism more plausible, evolution is
>>>nothing but the study of its own assumptions.
>>
>>
>> No. It is a set of hypotheses of how life a long time ago changed into
>> life as we find it.
>
> And a very shaky one, to say the least. In fact, Darwin had more doubts
> about it himself than do modern evolutionists.
>
> It is a theory of descent with modification. The
>> fact of descent with modification is manifest.
>
> I see. Do you have any examples of speciation in the present time?
> Because if you do, I'd really like to know about them.
>
> We can breed genetic
>> variants of organisms in laboratories.
> The mechanism for modification is
>> embodied in a set of testable hypotheses or hypotheses that have
>> testable consequences.
>
> I know all about how science works.
> If Darwinism is the best we can do, we need to rethink science from its
> very foundation.
>
> Nicolas
>>
>> Bob Kolker
>>
>>
>>
>

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