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falsifying evolution

John Grehan jrg13 at PSU.EDU
Sun Aug 15 22:40:38 CDT 1999


 Wolfgang W?ster wrote

>We do not (normally) get "total incongruence of characters". Certainly
>there is incongruence. However, if you do a good morphological
>phylogenetic analysis with a large number of characters for a certain
>group, and then another one using, say, some DNA sequence, you will see
>a fair amount of congruence between the results. Perfect? No (unless you
>are very lucky), but a very long way INDEED from a random pattern, which
>you might expect from separately created "kinds".

I agree its a long way from a random pattern. I was looking at incongruence
as total
for those groups of characters that are incongrunet. In many cases there is a
predominent grouping of characters, but there appear to be many cases where
the situation never seems to get any better. However, I do not understand
why a random pattern of characters would be necessarily be expected from
separately created kinds if they were created according to a heirarchical
design plan. I'm not saying that they were, just that if this were the view then
grouping characters would not be a problem for creationists.

John Grehan






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