Since I'm new to this discussion group, I was wondering if there was ever
any discussion here of Robert Dehaan's PSCF paper from a while back:
DeHaan, R., 1998. Do phyletic lineages evolve from the bottom up or develop
from the top down? Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50(4):260-271.
(I think Dehaan is a part of this discussion group. If so, my greetings to
you personally). While I enjoy contemplating the parallels and
relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny, I have some major problems
with the paper. In brief, I believe that it is at odds with a great deal
of evidence of about speciation and common ancestry (i.e., the FULL range
of macroevolution, from speciation to manifestation of groups of species
lineages we chose to recognize as higher-level taxa.).
I will have more to say if it hasn't already been said by others.
Doug
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Douglas Hayworth, Ph.D.
(Evolutionary and Population Biology)
Department of Biomedical Sciences
UIC College of Medicine at Rockford
1601 Parkview Avenue, Rockford, IL 61107-1897
Phone: 815-395-5894 Fax: 815-395-5666
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