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Gary Rosenberg wrote:
 This debate is also raging on the taxacom discussion group, and in
response
> to one of my postings there, Susan Farmer said:
>
> "In my experience, many Creationists don't have a problem with speciation.
> They will acknowledge that a different form of a lily can arise because
> of environmental/hydrid/polyploid/whatever conditions.  They contend
> that it was a lily before; and it's still a lily -- albeit a different
> one.  Most Creationists have a problem with the kind of speciation
> events that would cause the rise of a pteridophyte [fern] from an alga."
Hello!

I suppose one of the main concepts, other than blind faith, that
keeps creationism ticking is a lack of comprehension of time scales
since 5000 years is the creationist base line rather than 3 billion
years. Darwin had a heck of time getting this point across.

Later,

Emilio Jorge Power

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