Re: True things about evolutionary theory

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:09:59 -0800

At 11:26 AM 11/09/1999 -0600, Wesley wrote:
>Let's see... true things about evolution. That would make an
>overlong list. I'll just give some of my favorites.
>
>- Inheritance is particulate, not blending.
>
>- Inheritance is not perfect. Changes can and do happen in
>heritable information.
>
>- More organisms are produced than can be sustained under
>prevailing ecological conditions.
>
>- Those heritable variations which correlate with differential
>survival of organisms tend to have higher proportional
>representation in the population.
>
>- The distribution of traits in a population can be influenced
>by chance effects, such as population bottlenecks and sampling
>from a limited pool of variant.
>
>- Fossils are the traces of organisms that were once alive.
>
>- Fossil forms show that extinction of species happens. Certain
>fossils represent organisms common enough, large enough, and
>distributed in areas where if they were present through the
>present day could not have been overlooked.
>
>- Fossils are distributed in a stratigraphic pattern indicating
>change in fossil assemblages over time.
>
>- Fossil assemblages show that mass extinctions have happened
>at widely different times in the earth's history.
>
>- The canonical genetic code is consistent with the theory of
>common descent.
>
>- Patterns of differences in sequences of proteins and heritable
>information support the idea that these differences have accrued
>since the time of a last common ancestor.
>
>- Evolutionary interrelationships have been used to advantage
>in medical research.
>
>- The principles of natural selection have been used to
>advantage in computational optimization and search.
>
>- Species have been observed to form, both in the laboratory
>and in the wild.
>
>- A novel symbiotic association has been observed in the
>laboratory.

That's good Wesley! Now, tell me something you know for sure about the
process of evolution that differentiates it from special creation.
Art
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