Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!fritz From: fritz@phri.UUCP (Dave Fritzinger) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <375@phri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:42:52 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.375 Posted: Mon Aug 5 10:42:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 06:02:54 EDT References: <347@scgvaxd.UUCP> <14600028@hpfcrs.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 20 > > > Do these "vestigal" organs show "pregression" or "regression". I think that you, and by that I mean most creationists, tend to look at these things wrong. The sort of thing that we have been discussing, that is to say vestigal leg-bones in whales, represent neither progression nor regression. What they do represent is adaption to new circumstances (also known as *Natural Selection*). Since the legs serve no purpose in the water, but streamlining is a definite advantage. By the way, even if it is regression that is taking place, the bottom line is still the same-formation of new species!!!!!!!!!!!!! That sounds like evolution to me. -- Dave Fritzinger Public Health Research Institute NY,NY {allegra!phri!fritz} "Blasting, billowing, bursting forth with the power of 10 billion butterfly sneezes..." Moody Blues