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Thanks CTD

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Another evomyth... This religion is just too full of antihistory.
I stand corrected.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Don't shock me like that!

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I went back and checked my source, and it said that the term was not used in Origin of Species, but was adapted after that.
Might want to check this source. Last sentence on the page reads
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
'Tis the first edition, and the same sentence remains in the sixth also.


Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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