friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) (08/03/85)
In article <2163@pucc-h> aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) writes: > >The sciences you name support the idea that changes have occurred on earth >(e.g. dinosaurs once lived here, but no more), but they do not imply that >there was no intelligence behind the changes. And as I said, we don't see >evolutionary changes taking place now, and we certainly don't see life coming >from non-life now. > Well, I hate to post this here(it really belongs in net.origins), but the last statement above is incorrect, we *do* see exactly those processes which evolutionary theory leads us to expect going on today! It is only the unreasonable expectation that evolutionary change should be *obvious* on a human timescale that leads to the conclusion that evolutionary changes are not taking place now! -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen