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62 Mosaic Creatures

Research and Such prom i nent ev o lu tion ist pa -
a well-known le on tol o gists as Stephen J. Gould
ge ol o gist. At and Niles Eldredge ad mit that mo sa -
the sec ond in - ic crea tures can not be re gard ed as
ter na tion al in ter me di ate forms. 62
con fer ence With its ex ceed ing ly spe cial ized
held by the struc tures, the plat y pus al so re futes
Science this claim. (See Platypus, The.)
John Morris
Research
Foundation on 5 July 1998, ti tled
"The Collapse of the Theory of MOTHER NATURE; AN
Evolution: The Fact of Creation," he IRRATIONAL CONCEPT
de scribed the ide o log i cal and phil o - The in tel lec tu al move ment that
soph i cal con di tions be hind ev o lu - in flu enced Darwin—and en cour -
tion, the way this the o ry be came a aged him to look for an ex pla na tion
dog ma, and how its pro po nents be - for the liv ing things he en coun tered
lieve in Darwinism as if it were a re - oth er than one based on cre a tion—
li gion. 61 was nat u ral ism, one of the main phil -
os o phies of the 19th cen tu ry's athe is -
MOSAIC CREATURES
tic cli mate. Naturalism was a move -
Using one-sid ed in ter pre ta tions, ment that recog nized no oth er re al i ty
ev o lu tion ists some times present liv - than na ture and the world per ceived
ing things as ac tu al ly con sti tut ing in - by the five sens es. According to this
ter me di ate forms. However, the fact per vert ed view, na ture was its own
that a spe cies has fea tures be long ing cre a tor and rul er. Concepts such as
to an oth er liv ing group does not Mother Nature or clichéd ex pres sions
make it an in ter me di ate form. such as "Nature gave hu mans this
For ex am ple, the Australian abil i ty," or "Nature cre at ed this crea -
duck-billed plat y pus is a mam mal, ture in this way" re sult from pre con -
but lays eggs, just like rep tiles. In ad - cep tions placed in the mind of so ci e -
di tion, it has a beak just like a bird. ty by nat u ral ism.
However, its fur, milk glands and in - Evolutionists say that Mother
ner ear struc ture de fine it as a mam - Nature gave liv ing things the fea -
mal. Scientists there fore re fer to the tures they pos sess. But na ture con -
plat y pus as a mo sa ic crea ture. sists of such fa mil iar com po nents as

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