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[Frederick W. Schueler]

Curtis Clark wrote:
>
> On 2005-12-19 10:48, Richard Pyle wrote:
> > So I asked him how we can tell the difference between
> > forms that radiated from a single design, and forms that
> > were originally designed differently.
>
> This was exactly what Linnaeus was trying to determine: "What are
> the originally created kinds?" That has to be the fundamental question
> for a creationist biologist, hence my assertion that there aren't any,
> anymore.

* but that would be such an exciting and productive research programme
(cf Louis Agassiz) if only it had any merit! The only problem is that
it's so scientific that not only is it eminently falsifiable, but it's
been so long falsified by the continuum of similarities actually
observed that creationists have to protect their beliefs by ignoring it.

fred.
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