Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is General Goodness...(really evolution) Message-ID: <613@psivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 17:37:56 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.613 Posted: Fri Aug 2 17:37:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 10:37:42 EDT References: <852@umcp-cs.UUCP> <360@utastro.UUCP> <879@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1235@pyuxd.UUCP> <2134@pucc-h> <2163@pucc-h> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Followup-To: net.origins Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 20 In article <2163@pucc-h> aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) writes: > >The sciences you name support the idea that changes have occurred on earth >(e.g. dinosaurs once lived here, but no more), but they do not imply that >there was no intelligence behind the changes. And as I said, we don't see >evolutionary changes taking place now, and we certainly don't see life coming >from non-life now. > Well, I hate to post this here(it really belongs in net.origins), but the last statement above is incorrect, we *do* see exactly those processes which evolutionary theory leads us to expect going on today! It is only the unreasonable expectation that evolutionary change should be *obvious* on a human timescale that leads to the conclusion that evolutionary changes are not taking place now! -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen