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Impossibility

Impossibility

Origin: L. Impossibilitas: cf. F. Impossibilite.

1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. (South)

2. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. (Cowley)

3. Inability; helplessness. Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.


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Natural selection is proven wrong

just follow the logic it points to the impossibility of natural selection to generate new species Logic has already disproven your arguments, and yet you still refuse to listen to reason.

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by alextemplet
Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:53 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

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by gamila
Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:50 pm
 
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by narrowstaircase
Sun May 20, 2007 10:53 pm
 
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