On 12/05/2006, at 8:29 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 5/12/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'll try again: "Direct evidence" and "observation" are not always
the same.
You seem to be saying that the only direct evidence is actually
observing an event. You seem very hung up on this word "direct". Is a
film of evolution happening, rather than a collection of bodies with
time stamps, all you'd accept as "direct evidence" for the evolution
of life on earth?
Direct evidence, to me, means directly observing, measuring, etc.
Thank you. At last.
OK. So you don't think there is direct evidence for evolution as the
story of the development of life (despite the fact that evolution is
just the name for what we see in the fossil record - change over time
- not the mechanism, which is mainly selection).
But there is direct evidence of speciation (we've observed it and
replicated it).
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
Charlie
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