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   On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:39:01 -0400, raven1  wrote:   
   .   
   >On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:18:42 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2015-04-30, mur wrote:   
   >>...   
   >>>     The fact that there are no examples of reptiles in transition stages to   
   >>> birds, or mammals in transition stages to flying mammals, etc, alive today   
   is   
   >>> evidence that something (like God) had deliberate influence on evolution.   
   >>   
   >>   If there are no examples, it is evidence that they either haven't   
   >>   been found yet or that there aren't any. It says nothing whatsoever   
   >>   about the existence of something like God or anything else.   
   >   
   >We do have transitional fossils of reptile-to-bird evolution,   
   >Archaeopteryx being the most celebrated. But whether we did or not,   
   >you are correct that this is irrelevant to the existence of a deity,   
   >and it's involvement or not in the process.   
      
       That's your guess, and you obviously have great faith in your guess being   
   correct, but so far you've given no reason why everyone else should put their   
   faith in it being correct. How about if you give everybody reason to now?   
      
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