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Re: Flight SPECULATION
In a message dated 95-12-03 14:44:24 EST, martz@holly.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey
Martz) writes:
>One might argue (and some have), even in light of overwealming
>evidence, that saying that evolution really happened and that man
>really landed on the moon cannot be verified
>because we ourselves never actually saw it happen an it could all be a
>humungous fake or misinterpretaion. I refer to this way of thinking as
>keeping your mind so open that your brains fall out. Advocates of
>BCF may feel that my brains are spilling in said fashion, but I
>think that the evidence really IS too scanty in this particular case for
>certainty.
Certainty, of course, can never be guaranteed, particularly when devising
evolutionary scenarios. Every scenario has alternatives, every scenario has
plausible objections. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to simply call
for a moratorium on speculation about the origins of flight until a
significant number of pre-archaeopterygid dino-birds (or whatever) are
discovered. How likely is _that_ to happen?!
But I still think "ground up" is impossible, and "trees down" works. :-)