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Subject: A.E.Wilder-Smith's "The natural sciences know nothing of evolution"
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 18:22:49 EST
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Several people recently recommended A.E.Wilder-Smith's The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution.  
I finally got a copy from InterLibraryLoan and started reading it.
I couldn't believe it.  It is so full of errors of omission and 
commission that I could probably write a book refuting him point by
point.  I won't do that now, but will *flame on* in the near future.
For his fans: sorry, but he's got a lot of "facts" *wrong*.  There
is certainly some basis in fact for some of his points, but
the last four years of work in paleontology and evolutionary biology
blow most of his arguments out of the water.

It's too bad that so much is wrong: he's close to hitting fundamental
problems occasionally but misses the mark.

I'll deal with Chapters 1 and 2 in a future posting, and I promise to be brief.

dan davison