>> This is precisely the same sort of "materialist gap" I see in the
>> evolutionary field. Some of the top evolutionary minds--e.g.,
>> Tattersall, G. R. Taylor, etc.--admit that the sudden emergence of
>> man cannot currently be explained through pure materialism.
I have got hold of Tattersall's "The Fossil Trail", and quickly looked
through it last night, but was unable to find anything that could be
interpreted as the above admission. Care to give a page number or a
quote?
I expect that Tattersall referred to the emergence of man as
unexplained. That's very different from "cannot be explained". Lots of
things are unexplained.
Tattersall did refer to the emergence of man as an extraordinary event.
Big deal. So was the comet/meteor/whatever that slammed the earth 65
million years ago (assuming that this did happen). "Extraordinary"
doesn't imply a supernatural cause.
Who, incidentally, is G.R. Taylor?
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