From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 9 11:33:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D755437B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C23143E6A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0088.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.88] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17oTLQ-0005lC-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:33:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7CE928.87E3DF3E@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:32:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Lawrence Sica , Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020909103923.B9219-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Lawrence Sica wrote: > > Mutation is a mechanism of evolution. Evolution is the process. One > > could make the leap of faith that since we mutate over time and these > > mutations change the species we evolve... > > This is just what I am trying to get people to admit, that evolution > requires tremendous leaps of faith. Now if you could see that it is also > irrational, my job would be done. The problem with this idea is that we all freely admit that evolution is a *theory*. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message