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To: Brumar89 who wrote (10623)	12/7/2010 1:53:24 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

>Now how do we know that speciation exists? Whats the data? Well, because species exist, so their existence is the data that proves speciation and thus evolutionary theory.< But wait ... there's more! The fossil record shows not only that species exist, but that they existed and experienced a long climb in complexity. the timeline is important, and looking at current life doesn't treat of the timeline. 600 million years ago there were only single cells. ... The record tells us that speciation and extinction events happened. >Also, if the mechanism of speciation is unknown, how can ID be rejected as a hypothesis? < On that basis it can't be rejected. But I don't see how it can be favored either. My principal gripe with ID is that it is "top-down science" that draws its ultimate authority from an unscientific, and traditionally antiscientific, source. It's the scientific equivalent of what Biblical scholars call eisegesis, "reading into" the text from an external prejudice.