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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: Molecular Dating: The turd that won't go away
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:02:14 -0700
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:37:47 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com>:

>On 6/29/24 11:24 AM, Ernest Major wrote:
>> On 29/06/2024 15:48, John Harshman wrote:
>>> Google gives me nothing in a search for "isolation is the engine of 
>>> evolution", unfortunately. You have to wonder why he posts if he's 
>>> that uninterested in being understood.
>> 
>> Apart from JTEM Google gives me a quotation from an ecotourism guide in 
>> Costa Rica. I don't find it a particularly opaque phrase. If one was to 
>> be more precise one might substitute diversity or cladogenesis for 
>> evolution. In the light of recent mentions of the founder effect in 
>> quoted posts JTEM might be referring to evolutionary innovation, which 
>> is a somewhat more controversial claim.
>> 
>The question is not what that sentence means but who is supposed to have 
>said it, i.e. the "good doctor".
>
Mengele? Moreau? Kevorkian? So many possibilities...
>
-- 

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov