Re: Survey

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Fri, 22 Dec 1995 19:56:33 -0600

Jim quoted Rob as writing:
>>> Some evolutionists will argue that effects of this kind are
>>> too small to be significant. How ironic that it was Darwin himself
>>> that proved small effects accumulated over a long period of time
>>> could have a significant effect. ....
>
>>> They want to argue that small effects accumulated over sufficiently
>>> long periods of time can create the most spectacularly complex
>>> mechanisms known to man, but they also want to argue that small
>>> ecological effects accumulating over time cannot be the reason for
>>> the imperfections of design.

I haven't kept up on the pamphlet discussion, but from this quote, it sounds
as Rob is comparing apples and oranges. The likely hood of "small effects"
affecting ecology has nothing to do with the likelyhood of "samll effects"
affecting evolution.

STeve
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