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[quote=VMartin,July 13 2007,23:57] | Quote |
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Or a heavyset, thick-coated wolf, strong enough to carry a cask of brandy, that thrives in Alpine passes and might be named after one of them, the St. Bernard? Behe has to predict that you'd wait till hell freezes over, but the necessary mutations would not be forthcoming.
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The facts are these:
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As for the barrel on the collar, it first appeared in a painting by artist Edwin Landseer called “Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler” in 1820; Landseer was only 17 at the time. The cask was thought to contain brandy and quickly caught on in the public imagination, though the monks and their dogs never actually used such a thing. (Alcohol, after all, could hasten dehydration—not a good treatment for a snowbound traveler.)
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VMartin,
Your reading skillz aren't that great.
If they were better, you'd have noticed a relevant fact: Dawkins didn't write that they actually carried casks of brandy, but merely that they are strong enough to do so.
So are you disagreeing with what Dawkins actually wrote, or just with what you wish he had written?
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