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   From: andrew.321.remov@usa.net   
      
   "Attila" wrote in message news:ver5bk5dl1bfhmokc8h13efjnpakcanf8s@4ax.com...   
      
   > There are a number of skeletons that outline the evolution   
   > of those distant ancestors to modern man and new specimens   
   > on this path are frequently found.   
      
   You believe the interpretive (unscientific) story they   
   tell you about them because --> you are gullible and   
   thus easily deceived.   
      
   There is no mechanism for us to have evolved from   
   some lower life form to ourselves via the fantasized   
   evolutionary pathway.   
      
   Here an evolutionary biologist (and paleontologist)   
   tells you in his own words.   
      
   "To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a   
   lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested,   
   but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bed   
   time story--amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not   
   scientific   
      
   "From our vantage point in the present, we arrange   
   fossils in an order that reflects gradual acquisition of   
   what we see in ourselves. We do not seek the truth;   
   we create it after the fact, to suit our own prejudices."   
      
   "Many paleontologists believe that ancestor/descendent   
   lineages can be traced from the fossil record, and my   
   book is intended to debunk this view..old-style, traditional   
   evolutionary biology -- the type that feels it must tell a   
   story, and is therefore more appealing to news reporters   
   and makers of documentaries -- is unscientific.   
      
   "New fossil discoveries are fitted into this preexisting   
   story. We call these new discoveries "missing links", as   
   if the chain of ancestry and descent were a real object   
   for our contemplation, and not what it really is: . . . . .   
   a completely human invention created after the fact,   
   shaped to accord with human prejudices....   
      
   Each fossil represents an isolated point, with no   
   knowable connection to any other given fossil, and   
   all float around in an overwhelming sea of gaps."   
      
           ~ Henry Gee, Senior editor, "Nature"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)