RE: BAD vs. BADD (was: Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions)

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Tom Holtz wrote:

> And fie on those who say "but if there are only 8 planets they'll have to 
> change the textbooks."  Well, duh! You can either do Science (in which 
> knowledge is tentative and accumulative and subject to additional 
> modifications with new study) or you can follow dogma.

In the same way, those biology textbooks had to change "birds evolved from 
thecodonts" to "birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs" (or "birds are 
theropod dinosaurs").  Though some textbooks have been slow to catch up.

Robert Takata wrote:

> Maybe not so.
>
> "There is overwhelming evidence that Linneaus did not believe in fixity of 
> species."

There are some modern creationists who do not believe in the fixity of 
species.  Instead, they believe that there was only a relatively small 
number of species on Noah's ark, and these went on to evolve into all the 
species we see today.  For example, Mr and Mrs Bear came off the ark and 
their children gave rise to all the various bear species (polar, grizzly, 
panda, etc).  Thus, these particular creationists accept microevolutionary 
change, but not macroevolutionary change.  That's all I'll say about this 
tripe, because this topic is taboo on this list.  I'm only addressing it in 
the broader context of Linnaeus.

Cheers

Tim