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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span style='font-style:italic'>There are no "accidents" in the process of evolution. <<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>what about mutations (e.g., due to cosmic rays) or genetic drift? what<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>about the meteor that seems to have wiped out the dinosaurs?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Okay, in the topics of “mutations” the word
accident might be suitable, but if it is a natural biological process it must
be more natural than accidental.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I don’t consider meteor crashes to be accidental,
since it too is a natural – in this case, cosmological – process.
To say it was an accident is to say it might have been design – read:
created – to happen. Since I live in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Alabama</st1:place></st1:State>, I know that argument can be used as
a linking point for people who believe in the Intelligent Design.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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