From: czl30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Chris Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Evolution implied by the Bible
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:57:39 GMT
Reply-To: czl30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Chris Lee)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <yZuuwB3w165w@kalki33.uucp> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
>
>> Do you believe that the ancestors of people as diverse as South
>> American forest pygmies, Zulus, Europeans and Japanese were the
>> same as yours only a few thousand years ago?  If you do (and you
>> must, if you take the Bible at all seriously) then you must believe
>> a great deal of evolution has occurred since then.  If not, I 
>> would like to hear your arguments.
>
>These are not different species. They are all members of a single

Nobody ever said they weren't. But they have still evolved that way

>species. There has been no evolution of homo sapiens into different
>species. In fact, there are 400,000 species of human-like beings
>throughout the universe, and they do not evolve into or from one
>another, but have existed separately since the beginning of the kalpa.

Where do you get this garbage? If you read it in the scriptures of your
particular religion, you first have to justify your scriptures. If you
got it elsewhere, please cite the publications. If you discovered this
yourself, please give the evidence and justify the reasoning that led
to this conclusion. Until then it is not a fact.

>
>> If you do admit this much evolution can take place in such a short
>> time (hundreds of generations) then what objections can you take
>> against the extension of the idea to the theory of Darwinian
>> evolution as it stands today?
>
>Darwinian evolution means evolution of species.

No. All it means is that the survivors get to pass their genes on to the
next generation. And that over a long time if the gene pool is not mixed ,
this can lead to new species. And colonies of humans have not been
isolated for that long a time. The differences in the peoples quoted
earlier are due to survival characteristics.various environments

>                                                It is a false
>explanation of how there came to be many different species.

Why? Have you got a better explanation? If so please give it to us,
and tell us why your explanation is better.

>explanation of how there came to be many different species. The example
>you gave is not pertinent to Darwinian evolution, for it does not
>describe different species.

What do you think Darwinian evolution is? Which Jack Chick pamphlet did
you get it from?

>
>Sincerely,

Not really.

>Kalki Dasa
>
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Why? What does this mean?

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Chris Lee
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