RE: Data of absence, or absence of data?

Chuck Warman (cwarman@wf.net)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:49:27 -0500

John Rylander wrote:

>I know you've here expressed your displeasure at this sort of argument, but
I don't think you've countered it at all.
>

My objection goes like this:

Is there a good fossil record of transitional forms? Well, that's just what
the evolutionary model would predict.

Is the fossil record incomplete? Well, that's just what the evolutionary
model would predict.

Is the record lacking altogether? Well, that's just what the evolutionary
model would predict.

And so it goes, up & down the line.

The model is so adaptable, so malleable, that, IMO, there is no conceivable
set of scientific data that could not be subsumed by it.

Chuck the non-YEC
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Chuck Warman
cwarman@wf.net (Wichita Falls, TX)
"The abdication of Belief / makes the Behavior small."
----Emily Dickinson