If you read Darwin's "The Origin of Speicies" as well as many of his supporting works, it is quite clear that patterns of habitation by closely related plant and animal species was the primary factor driving him to reject special creation and argue for the evolution of species from a common ancestor. In fact, this was his only real clue as analysis of fossil records were embryonic and concepts like genetics and molecular biology didn't even exist.
Today, however, aside from throw away lines about Finches on the Galopogas islands, virtually no one even mentions this concept anymore.
With all the use of global information systems and things like Google Earth, are defenders of evolution overlooking what might be a powerful and straightforward way of demonstrating the realities of evolution on the ground?
2006-08-21
10:33:20
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soulrider
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