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   From: andrew.321.remov@usa.net   
      
   "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message news:XnsB34BD1CE34425629555@69.80.101.13...   
   > "Andrew" wrote in news:NkNsQ.31561$yb25.6967@fx03.ams4:   
   >> "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"   
   >   
   > Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change,   
   > not stasis; about process, not pattern;   
   > about tales, not tableaux; about becoming,   
   > not being.   
   > - Henry Gee -   
   >   
   > https://www.azquotes.com/author/84252-Henry_Gee#google_vignette   
      
   "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-"   
                                          ~ HG   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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