Katey's Last Drivel?

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To Doug:
Come on.  These guys are physicists.  They don't need natural historians
with messy data that are always consistent with a slew of different
interpretations putting constraints on THEIR theories.  No attempt to test
the reasonableness of this model with detailed data from any fossil record.

To Una:
I agree with everything you've said, especially the point about multiple
causes.  That's what I think we're looking at in the K/T fossil record and
that's why it's defied all previous attempts to find a single pattern.

To John:
I agree with your characterization (caricaturization? :)  ) of the
philosophical differences separating us.  But I disagree with your
interpretation(s).  To respond in detail would be to go back over the same
ground.  Let's call it a day and move on to other things.

If anyone out there wants a reprint of the MacLeod and Keller paper that
John Alroy and I have been discussing I still have some left.  It's best
for the arguments made therein to be read in their entirety.

Norm MacLeod


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