true things about evolution

Bertvan@aol.com
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 09:10:07 EST

Bertvan:
>> That such facts support common ancestry is certainly true. It might
>>also upport other scenarios, such as horizontal transfer, symbiosis. or
>>the possibility that similar DNA results in similar morphology, and the
>>genome itself has some unexplained ability to organize itself in similar,
>>meaningful, purposeful, designs and patterns.

Jim Behnke:
> Do you feel that these other models are different than common
>ancestry? I have never felt them to be theories competing with common
>ancestry.

Hi Jim,
I feel they are compatible with common ancestry or multiple ancestry. I feel
they could also be compatible with design or chance as the cause of novel
mutations.
The only thing which compells belief in *one* common ancestor is if life only
originated once.
Bertvan