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To: J-14 who wrote (368)	9/14/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Ball to me! Well science is both older and newer than the Catholics. The scientific method was invented for the most part by the Greek Ionians about 3000 years ago. Unfortunately, the procedure was lost at the time time of Roman conquest and did not resurface until about 500 years ago. I DO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION Unnecessary! Evolution is the change in life over time. You don't have to believe in it for it to occur. God, just like those of the greeks, when belief stops the god becomes a historical curiosity. TP ( I thank you for your support)

To: J-14 who wrote (368)	9/14/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Booney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I'm sorry to backtrack a bit, but I wish to respond to your previous comment re: the confirmation of evolution as "law". One of the many difficulties with the core concept of evolution is time. Gradualism (the evolutionary concept that present slow processes stretched over millions and billions of years account for dynamic changes in life), for example, presents in itself an intellectual challenge. Consider: 1. The moon has no erosion, but accumulates cosmic dust at a regular, measurable rate. NASA expected 54 feet of dust to cover the moon (4.5-5 billion years of accumulation) upon our landing there, yet only an eighth of an inch to three inches of such dust in fact covers the moon (less than 8,000 years of accumulation). 2. Our sun burns fuel at such a rate as to cause the sun's diameter to shrink approximately one tenth percent per century (five feet of shrinkage an hour). Our earth relies on the heat of the sun, yet only 100,000 years ago, our sun would have been double its current size, making life on earth inhospitable to life as we know it. 3. Our earth's magnetic field (the principal of progressive deterioration studied by physicist Thomas Barnes) weakens over time. Only 10,000 years ago, the field would have been equal to the strength of a magnetic star; inhospitable to life. Such examples go on and on. Evolution will remain a theory forever because it's concepts are conflicted out of possibility and can therefore never be proven. Food for thought.