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Author Topic:   Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Pressie
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Message 59 of 1311 (807708)
05-05-2017 5:45 AM
Reply to: Message 56 by Dredge
05-05-2017 5:35 AM


This one is funny.
Dredge writes:
...Besides, this is not my point, which is, to,my knowledge, 150 years of Darwinism -
Oh, I don't know. Even after 2000 thousand years since Jesus was supposed to be alive, fundy Christianity still haven't provided us any knowledge in even trying to describe microbes...

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Pressie
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Message 64 of 1311 (807725)
05-05-2017 6:31 AM
Reply to: Message 61 by Dredge
05-05-2017 5:50 AM


This is how I know that you're delusional and that your arguments are really, really stupid.
Your "argument" starts like this:
Dredge writes:
Yes, ok, but what difference has believing Darwin's...
Your arguments are stupid as I don't believe in Darwin nor his arguments. At all.
You are clueless.
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Pressie
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Message 553 of 1311 (812916)
06-21-2017 7:42 AM
Reply to: Message 541 by Dredge
06-20-2017 9:15 PM


Re: The Nested Hierarchy
Dredge writes:
Creationists believe that such evidence exists. I didn't see how the four faces on Mount Rushmore were brought into existence, but I can be secure in my deduction that humans must have done it.
I don't believe that Spooks did it. Just naturally occurring humans. No Spooks involved. That's my deduction.
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Message 554 of 1311 (812918)
06-21-2017 7:47 AM
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06-20-2017 9:40 PM


Re: The Nested Hierarchy
Dredge writes:
But since a human is more functionally complex than a chimp....
I disagree. A Chimp is far more functionally complex than a human.
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Message 618 of 1311 (813401)
06-27-2017 8:04 AM
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06-27-2017 7:58 AM


Re: Kinds
To me, too. All the way down from the first prokaryotes to the variety of living things today.

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Message 628 of 1311 (813501)
06-28-2017 7:07 AM
Reply to: Message 594 by Dredge
06-24-2017 12:25 AM


Re: Talk Origins
This one is funny.
Dredge writes:
Science cannot answer every scientific question...
Thank Odin for that. If science could answer every question I won't have a job. I'd be standing on a busy intersection with a hand-written placard stating: "Two kids to support. No job. No internet. Hungry. Please give. God bless".
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Message 629 of 1311 (813503)
06-28-2017 7:23 AM
Reply to: Message 627 by Tangle
06-28-2017 6:28 AM


Re: define "species"
I'm always quite puzzled when creationists think that defining species exactly somehow is "a problem for evolution".
Fuzzy boundaries would be a prediction of evolution, unlike "created kinds" by creationists where the boundaries are supposed to be totally fixed .
Note to myself: You've been watching too much Amcan tv lately, hence the word "totally". Should watch more European tv to embroaden my English vocab!

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Message 645 of 1311 (813598)
06-29-2017 5:13 AM
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06-29-2017 4:23 AM


Re: Kinds
Started reading it till I came to:
CRR writes:
...by loss of genetic information...
How do you measure genetic information to know whether it was a loss or a gain? Please quantify.

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Message 663 of 1311 (814073)
07-04-2017 6:08 AM
Reply to: Message 659 by CRR
07-04-2017 3:33 AM


Re: definitions
Or, maybe it's because the subject itself, life, is a concept very hard to define in one sentence or paragraph? Ever thought of that?

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Message 672 of 1311 (814142)
07-05-2017 2:14 AM
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07-04-2017 10:40 PM


Re: definitions
The one with the loss of genetic information? It's useless because you can't even tell us how you know whether genetic information is lost or gained...

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Message 680 of 1311 (814300)
07-06-2017 5:37 AM
Reply to: Message 679 by Dredge
07-06-2017 5:10 AM


Re: Interesting question...
Thanks for that, Dredge. Could you please provide an exact reference to the original document where he wrote/said that?

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Pressie
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Message 684 of 1311 (814305)
07-06-2017 6:32 AM
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07-06-2017 6:04 AM


Re: Interesting question...
That's why I'm asking, you, personally, Dredge, to provide the exact references to the original. This will enable us to try and verify it, ourselves.
Don't tell me you quoted from somewhere without reading the original sources?
I don't think you will pass any first year science course at any University...

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Pressie
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Message 685 of 1311 (814311)
07-06-2017 7:53 AM
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07-06-2017 6:04 AM


Re: Interesting question...
Ok, let's solve it. On evc there is a function where the originals could be sent privately through the admins of this site. No infringement on copy rights, etc. Could you send me the original source of the quote you provided?
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Pressie
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Message 863 of 1311 (815174)
07-17-2017 7:27 AM
Reply to: Message 859 by Dredge
07-16-2017 9:38 PM


Re: Interesting question...
Dredge writes:
The theory that all life shares a common ancestor is the theory of evolution...
No, it isn't. The theory of evolution involves the mechanisms involved in how life changed from the first forms of life (forms of prokaryotes) to the variety of life we see around us today. Mechanisms being the operating word.
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Message 864 of 1311 (815175)
07-17-2017 7:44 AM
Reply to: Message 856 by ringo
07-16-2017 2:08 PM


Re: define "species"
ringo, creationists are trained to think that the term vestigial is a synonym for the word 'useless'.
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