Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why is WikiPedia so slow?

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Vern, there's no evidence to support the possibility that I threw a
> quarter into your back yard, but that doesn't mean that I didn't.
>
> Lacking evidence is not, in my mind, support for an alternative. You're
> trying to prove a negative, and that's usually pretty useless. Find some
> evidence positively (in the integer sense of the word) *supporting* your
> argument.
>

I have mulled this statement over a few times trying to make sure that
I got it right, and maybe I am still a little confused. You are saying
the absence of a fossil record does not support that there really
isn't one. Are you saying that there still could be a connection, a
fossil record we have not found and might never find and that I am
supposed to just take it on FAITH and BELIEF there is such a thing?

WOW, so since there is no evidence that there is a Creator, or even a
flying spaghetti monster, that does not mean there isn't one. Maybe I
got it wrong.

> >
> > http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0831_050831_chimp_teeth.html
> >
> > So why then, if man and chimpanzee and orangutan and gorilla all
> > evolved from one common ancester, why can we not trace back their
> > family tree? Is it possibly because there was no evolution in those
> > creatures? Or perhaps so little evolution as to make them
> > undescernable from their present day counterparts? And if that is the
> > case, then how can evolution be all encompassing where every creature
> > evolves as Darwin suggested?
>
> If, when I put that quarter in your yard, I bury it a few dozen feet? Is
> it still there? Will you likely find it?
>
> I think the reason this type of argument irritates me is that it's the
> same discussion I have to have with people who come and ask me "What's
> wrong with the network?"

So if an intellegent designer has placed all of the DNA information
storage into each and every animal and is controlling the natural
selection process by changing or evolving these creatures. Just
because science has been unable or unwilling to prove this designer's
existence does not mean it is not there, correct? Or maybe that is too
much of a leap?

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Thanks
F Vernon Green

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