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Subject: Is he?


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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 07/14/04 3:47pm
In reply to: Ben 's message, "It's as much my relative as it is yours" on 07/ 6/04 11:28pm

>It's not my "uncle," no. But there is no doubt it is
>related to me. Darwin first figured it out, and then
>modern science, particularly DNA comparison, has
>verified it.

Has it? We've found similarities to be sure. But there are different interpretations of the data here. One alternate explanation: similar biological structures (as DNA) for similar functions. A TI-85 and a TI-86 graphing calculator have numerous similarities. Nonetheless, that doesn't imply that they evolved from a common ancestor.

Perhaps better evidence would be fossils of intermediate forms, but the track record for this is quite troubling. Hence a number of creationists argue it to be evidence that the evidence of human evolution is spurious. Take the example of Piltdown man. If this was really a hard science, why didn’t scientists immediately recognize when they examined it that it was the combination of a jaw and skullcap of a man and an ape? The hoax was a fairly obvious one, and yet it took decades for it to be realized. A number of other examples could be given. If the link give was correct, then nearly all experts now realize that even the famous Lucy to be just a 3-foot chimpanzee. Hence the skepticism of claims like, “Oh, we have fossil evidence for it now!” Given the obvious human imperfections of science in this case (not to mention the not so illustrious the track record) such as the example above, I’m not convinced. “Conclusive evidence” seems like a terrible overstatement.

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One point.Wade A. Tisthammer07/14/04 4:00pm
Alernate explanations are easy to createBen07/14/04 4:15pm


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