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Tangle writes:except to ask why he'd do such a thing

aristotle writes:Anyone who says different is immediately labelled "ignorant", reminds me a lot of religion.

'Punctuated Equilibrium' is a ludicrous theory invented by evolutionists to try explain away the trend of saltation in the fossil record ... According to evolution by natural selection, saltations are impossible, an organism must evolve one genetic variation at a time.

RAZD writes:Evolution occurs whether information is added or not

dwise1 writes:"atheist"? Wherever do you get that idea from? I cannot recall ever seeing atheism being presented or promoted on it. What are you talking about?

aristotle writes:How can you say that speciation occurs, if you don't even know what the word 'species' means?

Tangle writes:And I said that he could indeed and that was exactly what Catholics are told to believe.

Taq writes:If creationism is true, why would we expect to see a nested hierarchy? Out of all the trillions of possible combinations of features and DNA, why pick the one pattern that evolution would produce?

I would bet my bottom dollar that 99% of the authors at Talk Origins are atheists.

Dredge writes:Moot point. Why did God create spiders with eight legs ... the sky blue ... grass green ... jelly fish ... flies? Not understanding why the Creator created as he did is not a persuasive argument against it happening.

Dredge writes:As a Catholic, I am free to believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and completely reject ToE.

According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the 'Big Bang' and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms, still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets. In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life. While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5—4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution.

The Big Bang, which nowadays is posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it. The evolution of nature does not contrast with the notion of creation, as evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

... which requires no increase in genetic information. ...

Dredge writes:I would bet my bottom dollar that 99% of the authors at Talk Origins are atheists.

... Isn't that kind of like a reverse Appeal to Authority?

RAZD writes:Can you define "genetic information" and then show this to be the case?

Dredge writes:But genetic informaton is a logical concept that I expect science will verify as an irrefutable fact one day.