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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
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>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Yasir Husain wrote:
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>>> there is absolutely no guarantee that evelutioin is happening.
>>> evidence is all statistical-historical+theory
>>>
>> not true. there have been studies of organisms living in heavy-
>> metal
>> superfund sites and their adapatation, genetic and speciation.
>
> i think you'll notice the seeming contradiction with the second line 
> about evidence ...well, how else to support any theory in any 
> discipline. i had something else is mind which is the uncertainty 
> associated with it - hence 'no guarantee that..' .
>
> instead of upending evolution in favor of u know what, i was  
> provocatively loosely thinking of the explanation debate such as 
> gould-dawkins in gould's favor  :)
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>>> even if u take that to be conditionally acceptable (true*) u
>> have on 1
>>> hand open ended changes (progress, deterioration, no change) on
>> the
>>> other u have environmental factors which can affect things in
>> any no of
>>> ways
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>> i don't see how this contradicts evolution.
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> that was not the intention. it was to throw in some provocative 
> notions ...
> i suppose i would defn be cautious about/against 
> over-prescriptive/predictive explantions
>
>>>
>>> that leaves things more upto chance than anything to go on
>>> making some nice patterns
>>>
>> why nice.
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> because of the sheer uncertainty involved
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> thx for pointing out those stale neurons in the attic