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Author Topic:   The Ten Laws of Creationism and Intelligent Design
Percy
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Message 42 of 75 (803866)
04-05-2017 11:25 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by Davidjay
04-05-2017 11:08 AM


Re: Reading Genesis literally but not scientifically
Davidjay writes:
As design is not anywhere in evolutionary theory, its premise is that all things evolved in time (billions and trillions of years)...
The universe is only around 13.8 billion years old, the Earth around 4.5 billion years old, while life is thought to have begun as much as 4 billion years ago. Science believes life has been evolving on Earth for about 4 billion years. There's no evidence for trillions of years.
I mean if there was evidence, why didn't they teach us any of it in university and why did they never allow anyone to question them.
They do teach the evidence for evolution at university. The primary evidence is fossil evidence, which explains biological variation today and is consistent with the "replication with mutations" behavior of DNA. You could perhaps argue that the evidence has been misinterpreted, but it makes no sense to argue there is no evidence.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 60 of 75 (803981)
04-06-2017 8:26 AM
Reply to: Message 44 by Davidjay
04-05-2017 11:43 AM


Re: Reading Genesis literally but not scientifically
Davidjay writes:
Never seen any fossil evidence personally, I have seen a lot of artists depictions and imaginations, and frauds and counterfeits for the sake of further research funding.
I don't know that it's necessary to see the fossil evidence personally, only to understand that the fossil record is a record of change over time. And as I mentioned earlier, there are no "trillions of years." The world is only 4.5 billion years old, and life a little less than that. The fossil evidence indicates that life was unicellular for much of its history until around 550 million years ago.
Birds becoming mammals becoming fishes, with spouts on the tops of their heads, as with mamalian whales... Nah I'm not buying it.
Birds never became mammals, and mammals never became fish. Birds evolved from dinosaurs, mammals evolved from reptiles which evolved from fish. Whales and dolphins are not fish, they're mammals.
--Percy

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