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Old 02-November-2008, 10:46 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Grant,
Have you read Wilson's "Evolution for Everyone"?
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source...Tv6HISQXdC7P6Q
I haven't.

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Shouldn't there have been an evolution advantage to limit the size of the animal?
There are benefits from large size, and benefits from small size. Evolution can shove in either direction.

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The writers are not anti-creationists. They are not saying sauropods did not exist. They are saying something was fundamentally different in the environment when gigantic animals and plants thrived which which partially removed a limit to gigantism.
That's right. And they're casting around and cherry-picking for all their worth to try to make a convincing case. When I see people shirking the obvious detail, I stop reading.

Grant Hutchison
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