Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
6 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,815 Year: 3,072/9,624 Month: 917/1,588 Week: 100/223 Day: 11/17 Hour: 0/7


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Evidence for Evolution: Whale evolution
Dredge
Member
Posts: 2850
From: Australia
Joined: 09-06-2016


Message 436 of 443 (805820)
04-20-2017 11:07 PM
Reply to: Message 432 by Dr Adequate
04-20-2017 9:47 AM


Dr. Adequate: "... nothing to do with whales".
It is relevant to whale evolution - unscientific asssumptions and wild extrapolations lead people to theorise that it's possible for whales to evolve from deers.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 432 by Dr Adequate, posted 04-20-2017 9:47 AM Dr Adequate has not replied

  
Coyote
Member (Idle past 2106 days)
Posts: 6117
Joined: 01-12-2008


(3)
Message 437 of 443 (805821)
04-20-2017 11:12 PM
Reply to: Message 435 by Dredge
04-20-2017 11:02 PM


Scientists are always encouraged to think about the weaknesses of their theories.
But the problem we are seeing is that creationists think that their unevidenced religious beliefs constitute weaknesses in scientific theories. This is not the case.
What we see is that creationists cling to their beliefs more tenaciously than barnacles to a rock, and that they do not tend to examine the weaknesses of their own beliefs.
Those who do find that their beliefs are often contradicted by real-world evidence.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view--William F. Buckley Jr.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 435 by Dredge, posted 04-20-2017 11:02 PM Dredge has not replied

  
Dredge
Member
Posts: 2850
From: Australia
Joined: 09-06-2016


Message 438 of 443 (805964)
04-21-2017 8:55 PM
Reply to: Message 420 by Dr Adequate
04-19-2017 3:24 AM


Dr. Adequate: "in which textbooks? Or did you make that up?"
In 2007, Discovery Institute published a list of ten modern textbooks that featured Haeckel's drawings. However, I don't know what the situation is in 2017.
Also according to Discovery institute,Jay Gould wrote this in 2000: "We should ... not be surprised that Haeckel's drawings entered nineteenth century textbooks. But we do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks".

This message is a reply to:
 Message 420 by Dr Adequate, posted 04-19-2017 3:24 AM Dr Adequate has not replied

  
Adminnemooseus
Administrator
Posts: 3974
Joined: 09-26-2002


Message 439 of 443 (805966)
04-21-2017 8:59 PM


Time to lay this one to rest - Going into summation mode
Previous posters to this topic get one last message.
Adminnemooseus

Or something like that.

  
Davidjay 
Suspended Member (Idle past 2329 days)
Posts: 1026
From: B.C Canada
Joined: 11-05-2004


Message 440 of 443 (806045)
04-22-2017 11:58 AM


Whales didnt evolve
Its obvious that no one can even suggest that whale spout location, happened by chance so that a mamalian can live under water and breathe air from the surface. Fish did not become mamals, and mammals (like a whale) were not fish, and did not step by step through the billions of years get the right spout hole location, and all the other qualities and abilities and god given adaptions, they have.
Artists imaginations do not make proofs, theories do not make science. Whales did not evolve.
And Yes, some of these threads are ancient and archaic and long overdue for extinction. New threads are much needed, so that posters stay on topic and readers can read on topic comments, in a real debate where bpth sides are compelled to answer queries on their theories.

.
The Lord is the GREAT SCIENTIST as He created SCIENCE and ALL LAWS and ALL MATTER and of course ALL LIFE. God is the Great Architect, Designer and Mathematician. Evolutioon is not mathematical and says there is no DESIGN but that all things came about by sheer LUCK.
.

  
NoNukes
Inactive Member


(3)
Message 441 of 443 (806330)
04-24-2017 3:48 PM


Its obvious that no one can even suggest that whale spout location, happened by chance so that a mamalian can live under water and breathe air from the surface. Fish did not become mamals, and mammals (like a whale) were not fish, and did not step by step through the billions of years get the right spout hole location, and all the other qualities and abilities and god given adaptions, they have.
The summation from DavidJay is excellent. It is also telling.
Saying that your position is obvious is not an argument. It is an introduction to an argument. At best DavidJay hinted at questions for evolution supporters to address. He never presented much of anything other than assertions in support of his position. I think his best point dealt with asking for an explanation of the location of a whale's blowhole.
However DavidJay is not worth anyone's time. He does not respond to any points or questions in any meaningful way. He maintains a buffoon's idea of what the theory of evolution states; an idea from which he will not budge. He seeming does not understand basic ideas like selection, which makes it impossible to have any kind of meaningful with him.
On top of that, like many creationists, he seems to take on an air of superiority based on his lack of understanding of science and to ridicule debaters from the base of superiority. And of course, true to type, he declared himself the winner of the debate. Now, who else have we seen do that routinely?
Good for a laugh. Not much else happening here these days.
ABE:
Oops. Completely forgot about AO Guy who actually started this thread.
Well, he was slightly better than DavidJay. At least he knows how to promise to discuss something. Still waiting for some sign that he understood the objections folks raised.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

  
Tangle
Member
Posts: 9489
From: UK
Joined: 10-07-2011
Member Rating: 4.9


(2)
Message 442 of 443 (806338)
04-24-2017 4:23 PM


In the last few weeks I've learnt yet again that you can't have a sane discussion with people that are simply irrational.
I'm wondering why this is such a hard thing to stay learned.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

  
Tanypteryx
Member
Posts: 4344
From: Oregon, USA
Joined: 08-27-2006
Member Rating: 5.9


(3)
Message 443 of 443 (806341)
04-24-2017 4:48 PM


A couple uneducated and uneducable clowns dragged an interesting thread off course. They did a great job entertaining us and vindicating science, evolution, and education, so not a total loss.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024