Extinctions: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? A nod to D. Raup (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, February 07, 2011, 01:08 (4830 days ago) @ David Turell

The following is copy from the weekly summary of Journel Science. It appears that the 250 mya Permian-Triassic ezxtinction was primarily due to volcanic eruptions, i.e.,bad luck:
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> Extinction's Cause and Effect
> Nicholas S. Wigginton 
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...-But don't you, in your own admission to teleology purport that this event was not a chance event? The development of mammals wasn't possible without the dinosaurs out of the picture.

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