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Creation & Evolution
Is There a 'Middle Ground' Author?
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<blockquote data-quote="Split Rock" data-source="post: 60750982" data-attributes="member: 17087"><p>The answer is obviously <em>yes</em>. I think this is the crux of your problem. The determination is not based on any imaginative reconstruction.. it is based on the fossil bones itself. If a fossil species has characteristics found only in two related lineages, then the fossil is transitional. Now, where you will have less objective determinations involve asking whether or not the fossil is directly ancestral to any particular species. There is no good methodology for this.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>There is no such "evocation" required. If life was created by a god or alien, and then allowed to evolve, there would be no effect on the resulting lineage, if viewed in isolation (which is what you are doing here). Again, I must emphasize that there is no "evolutionary worldview."</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Correct. Although, you are wrong to think that determining taxonomic levels is easy. It is often quite arbitrary. </p><p> </p><p></p><p>Creationists will simply say "no" to any transitional. What type of intermediate method are you looking for? If person "A" says NO to everything regardless of the evidence, and person "B" tries to use established methodology to determing yes, no, or maybe, there isn't really any other middle source, since person "B" is already the middle source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Split Rock, post: 60750982, member: 17087"] The answer is obviously [I]yes[/I]. I think this is the crux of your problem. The determination is not based on any imaginative reconstruction.. it is based on the fossil bones itself. If a fossil species has characteristics found only in two related lineages, then the fossil is transitional. Now, where you will have less objective determinations involve asking whether or not the fossil is directly ancestral to any particular species. There is no good methodology for this. There is no such "evocation" required. If life was created by a god or alien, and then allowed to evolve, there would be no effect on the resulting lineage, if viewed in isolation (which is what you are doing here). Again, I must emphasize that there is no "evolutionary worldview." Correct. Although, you are wrong to think that determining taxonomic levels is easy. It is often quite arbitrary. Creationists will simply say "no" to any transitional. What type of intermediate method are you looking for? If person "A" says NO to everything regardless of the evidence, and person "B" tries to use established methodology to determing yes, no, or maybe, there isn't really any other middle source, since person "B" is already the middle source. [/QUOTE]
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