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To: epicure who wrote (27165)	12/20/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, Well, I think it was not just the catholic church but the "minds" of the time. They seemed to think that it fit there theology so they took it up. It's important to me to note that what the christian church started out as was not the same as what it became later, the catholic church. As far as I'm concerned, when the christian church took a turn and started becoming the catholic church that's when it pulled away and stopped serving God so much and started serving the organization moreso. Until the divergence was eventually complete. If God is judged by His messengers, wretches that we are, then He would indeed come up short. We are still entrapped in our human frailty, imperfect. Emile is much more able to argue the flaws in the theory of evolution than me. I just know they are there and that it has yet to be proved that what is seen is actually evolution. I see that when flaws are found in the theory of evolution the theory plods on because scientists have their lives work invested in it. There is such a large body of scientists that have chased this myth that they have a vested interest in keeping it alive. If it finally dies they will lose everything. So every bone that is dug up is heralded as a victory for evolution when actually there is no proof at all of any linkage. I have said before that it is equally plausible to think that God created many species with similar characteristics. But there is no reason to believe because of those similarities that one came from the other. That linkage does not exist in science at all. Similarities in glands, DNA, physical structure doesn't prove any linkage other than the design parameters that the Creator used were sometimes similar. And that makes a lot of sense. Bob

To: epicure who wrote (27165)	12/20/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 108807

The Fossil Record or Skips and Scratches Like any old time Victrola. The whale has often been cited as a contraindication of the theory of evolution. The fossil record for the whales was extremely spotty and offered NO evidence to support the idea that a land based mammal had found a new home in the sea, at some time in the past. This changed dramatically in the early 1990's (1994?) when several key fossils were found. The fossils were quite complete, and very convincing. The strength of the whale argument diminished considerably in light of the new fossil evidence. A person could choose to ignore such convincing scientific evidence, but a paleontologist would be very unlikely to. Consider that our Western ancestors once considered all things to be a combination of four basic elements, earth, air, fire and water. Modern science considers four forces, the weak, the strong, the electro-magnetic and gravity.