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Re: Dinosaur extinction

To: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Subject: Re: Dinosaur extinction
From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:00:56 -0500 (EST)
Cc: v-jclav@microsoft.com, andreas.kolle@hfstud.uio.no, dinosaur@usc.edu
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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> The biggest problem with extinction theories is that they simply cannot be
> confirmed. One cannot run an experiment with control groups and so forth, so
> one is left with "maybe this" and "maybe that."... Might as well save
> your breath.

An honest question: Wouldn't Darwin's Natural Selection hypothesis at the
time he proposed it fall under this view?

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