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From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Molecular Dating: The turd that won't go away
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:54:07 +0100
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On 01/07/2024 20:11, Burkhard wrote:
> Bob Casanova wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>>
> 
> Shaun Murphy I would have thought
> 

I'm not up on popular culture, but that's what the wisdom of the net 
told me.

-- 
alias Ernest Major