If a mythical creature such as a griffin existed.....

I think that we need to be a little more cautious. If a griffin were found and proven to be beyond any reasonable explanation in terms of evolutionary theory, then we could certainly say that the griffin had not evolved. I don't think, however, that a singular anomalous species would cast much doubt on the rest of evolutionary theory, or the explanations derived from it - a little, but not much. That is not to say that our understanding of how the griffin came to be might not cast such doubt, but concluding that just from the existence of griffins would be jumping the gun a bit.The most we could say, given griffins, is that whatever produced griffins might have had a hand in the evolution of other species, but we would need evidence to say that it did, and the anomalous nature of the griffin would be a reason for suspecting that it did not. Given the evidence that we actually have I think that we would stick to current explanations until more evidence came in.

Until the fucking details were in, not a fucking thing. And I would have a great deal of fucking confidence that the fucking details would fit the fucking theory. Yeah, as a fact, it fucking is.

But we are being asked to envisage an actual copulatory event that actually fornicates in an actual lascivious manner. So to speak. Perhaps you could elaborate on this subject. Feel free to decline and conjugate the word "fuck" if that makes you happy.

Oh, I thought that was your word. Really not much more to say. The body of evidence is exceptional. The theory is too strong. Any benefit of the doubt goes to the theory not the griffin. All copulatory events fornicate in a lascivious manner don't they?

Let's look at your statement:

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The bit where someone asserts that the griffin is certainly produced by the processes that comprise the theory of evolution.

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No-one has asserted "that the griffin is certainly produced by the processes that comprise the theory of evolution".
I don't see anyone making that claim.
In fact, I see the opposite being claimed: "we could meet the super intelligent alien who faked up the Earth".
So where did you get it from?
If it is mentioned in the ToE then I must have missed it. . It is the same evolution that we often talk about on this forum - and a super intelligent alien creating chimera does not invalidate it.We saw evolution happening yesterday. We see it happening today. And (if we are not destroyed by the super intelligent aliens) we will see it happening tomorrow.Edited by Panda, : No reason given.

No...not after you are married.

Oh right. I forgot that.One of the reasons for the divorce. Now the situation has reversed.Happy days are here again. The skys above are clear again.