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   From: bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu   
      
   On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, "Lady Chatterly's Nextdoor Neighbor (c)"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:50:47 +0000 (UTC), bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D.   
   > Bryant) wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, "In my evolving opinion"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Sounds like a good challenge. First, since you seem to be   
   >>> confident and knowledgeable, will you answer a question   
   >>> about evolution for me?   
   >>>   
   >>> How do complex organ systems such as the nervous system in fish,   
   >>> evolve when there is no advantage for the incremental steps,   
   >>> mutations, along the way? And how do organs that have no use without   
   >>> being connected to a system evolve independently of the system? Or   
   >>> does the connective tissue evolve coincidentally with the organs to   
   >>> achieve a working totality and link up again by coincidence of   
   >>> mutation without advantage?   
   >>   
   >>I can't tell you everything you want to know, but I would like to   
   >>point out that the ancestry of our nervous systems ans sensory organs   
   >>go way back beyond fish.  I suspect the system is more incremental   
   >>than your're imagining, and that there were more intermediate benefits   
   >>than you imagine as well.   
   >   
   > Science is perfectly capable of measuring how much human beings have   
   > allegedly evolved in the past 2,000 years. (the answer is near zero)   
      
   Why do you assume that evolution occurs at a constant rate?   
      
      
   > Take that and multiply it by many years it would take to evolve an earth   
   > fish into a human being.   
   >   
   > That's a longer time than earth has been here, and of course that time has   
   > been punctuated with 5 mass extinction.   
   >   
   > There is NO WAY possible that human beings on earth evolved from life here.   
      
   Bad assumption --> bad conclusion.   
      
   --   
   Bobby Bryant   
   Austin, Texas   
      
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