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tgamble · 10-26-2002, 03:19 AM

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Originally posted by Wyz_sub10:
<strong>Sorry, maybe I didn't fully understand the original issue. My understanding was that the Ross supporters were touting the book as being in agreement that speciation is not occurring.
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That's right. But mentioning speciation in the past (ie. fossil record) doesn't count because it was still in the period of creation. It's kinda fucked up.

Valentine Pontifex · 10-26-2002, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by tgamble:
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That's right. But mentioning speciation in the past (ie. fossil record) doesn't count because it was still in the period of creation. It's kinda fucked up.</strong>

Lets just say that the guy screwed up. It is certainly nothing unusual about someone getting facts wrong about a field outside of their own speciality. The citation comes from a popular level book that is not in anyway related to speciation. And thus citing this work as proof of no speciation is inexcusable for work above the high school level.

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