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To: Tom C who wrote (93776)	1/16/2005 10:11:10 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

:-) I think I actually posted that one here earlier. But it bears repetition.

To: Tom C who wrote (93776)	1/16/2005 10:31:15 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You don't have to read far into the link you posted to note the frequent use of "probably(s)" "Probably" doesn't inspire confidence and is not a word we generally think of as belonging in science. Check this very pro-evolution link by Gould of Harvard ("Dr. Evolution"): members.cox.net You will see that Gould acknowledges the paucity of evidence for transitions of species. He is a sponsor of a theory to explain this anomaly, roughly that species transitions were not gradual but abrupt at punctuated intervals. When scientists begin devising new theories as patches to holes in the original theory, it is a telling sign that the basic theory is in a crisis stage. (This is elaborated upon in Thomas Kuhn's well known works on how the sciences have historically progressed from one paradigm to another).