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	<title>Comments on: Happy Christmas! Buy a Book!</title>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello,

I&#039;m interested in Richard Dawkins, though probably not for the same reason you are.  But I would ask you this: Assuming that flight developed by evolutionary means, can you describe any scenario in which flightless animals would develop, though millions of small incremental changes the ability to learn to fly?  They would have to grow feathers, develop light enough bones, develop a proper breathing apparatus, etc., without which combined changes, flight would be impossible.  Accepting Darwinian theory that improvements are the things that are passed along to successive generations, how many millions of improvements in every physiological area would it take for an animal to learn to fly?  Why would those changes even move in the direction of flight without something guiding them?  Can blind chance even conceive of flight?  How could blind chance write such an elaborate code that would enable flight?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m interested in Richard Dawkins, though probably not for the same reason you are.  But I would ask you this: Assuming that flight developed by evolutionary means, can you describe any scenario in which flightless animals would develop, though millions of small incremental changes the ability to learn to fly?  They would have to grow feathers, develop light enough bones, develop a proper breathing apparatus, etc., without which combined changes, flight would be impossible.  Accepting Darwinian theory that improvements are the things that are passed along to successive generations, how many millions of improvements in every physiological area would it take for an animal to learn to fly?  Why would those changes even move in the direction of flight without something guiding them?  Can blind chance even conceive of flight?  How could blind chance write such an elaborate code that would enable flight?</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Graves</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Graves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Definitely reading the Sagan book even if I have to get it through the library - should have read him years ago. I&#039;m one of those people who puts off reading books because others grab my attention first - and sadly I&#039;m a slow reader . . . it&#039;s like a guy with a really small stomach and a big appetite going to a buffet. I&#039;ve picked up bits and pieces of his views over the years and it sounds like he had an _amazing_ mind. I went and read up on him online a bit after reading your blog and he really seems to have kept both his sense of wonder and his sense of skepticism . . . a precious and rare thing. Thx for the recommendations . . . although they do cost a bit, I&#039;ll take good books over the internet any day . . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Definitely reading the Sagan book even if I have to get it through the library &#8211; should have read him years ago. I&#8217;m one of those people who puts off reading books because others grab my attention first &#8211; and sadly I&#8217;m a slow reader . . . it&#8217;s like a guy with a really small stomach and a big appetite going to a buffet. I&#8217;ve picked up bits and pieces of his views over the years and it sounds like he had an _amazing_ mind. I went and read up on him online a bit after reading your blog and he really seems to have kept both his sense of wonder and his sense of skepticism . . . a precious and rare thing. Thx for the recommendations . . . although they do cost a bit, I&#8217;ll take good books over the internet any day . . .</p>
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