Re: Testing Darwinism, part 2

BHendrsn@kirk.microsys.net ("BHendrsn@kirk.microsys.net")
Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:30:41 +0000

> *** More pseudo-tests of evolution ***
>
> Brian Hendrsn wrote:
>
> >The problem with this kind of thinking is that "suddenly" in the
> >fossil record doesn't satisfy Loren's requirements. Define "sudden"
> >as it applies to the fossil record. Does this equate to the short
> >time period of Loren's statement or to a relatively short geological
> >time period, perhaps thousands or even tens of thousands of years?
>
> Precisely. Loren's post ***sounded*** like he gave a test of evolution.
> But on Brian's interpretation we find it devolves into a non-test. Is
> evolution false, or is it unfalsifiable? Either way it has no grip on
> reality.

No, Walter, if you'd bother actually reading what gets written
instead of spending all your time telling people what they really
meant to say, you might learn something.

> >What Loren was suggesting is that if we
> >observed a single species originating at several locations
> >simultaneously without any evident evolutionary pathways, we would
> >have to assume that evolution was false. You've blown it completely
> >out of all reasonable proportion.
>
> Brian gave a pseudo-test of evolution. I couldn't ask for a better example.
> Let me interpret Brian in plain English. He is claiming that one way to
> falsify Darwinism would be to DEMONSTRATE SOME OTHER METHOD OF EVOLUTION.
> Evolutionists would not be dismayed at this result. They'd be overjoyed!

Please don't bother "interpreting" me, since obviously you haven't
the slightest clue what I was saying. Loren made a perfectly valid
statement. You have perverted it out of all proportion. I tried to
correct your obvious misconceptions. Again, you ignored the message
in favor of your own ridiculous conclusions. I must therefore
conclude that you have no interest in the truth about evolution, just
in your own misrepresentation thereof.

> There is no test of evolution here. Just the usual run-around.

Yeah. Now if you'd just stop running, you might learn something.

-Brian