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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
CRR writes: This one is funny to me. A YEC who thinks that semantics are used as science.
Of course nobody in this forum would do such a thing but this slippery meaning of the word evolution provides many opportunities for bait and switch tactics.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
This one is funny to me.
Dredge writes: Really? Look up Jaap Marais. He was a white supremacist politician who did manage to breed black budgies. Notice that breeders have not managed to produce black or red budgies... Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Not really. I agree with Taq.
The theory of evolution describes the mechanisms involved in life changing over time.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Really? From The Economist?
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Dredge writes: Nope. I can't find any reference to "The general theory of evolution' except from a book written by someone in the sixties. That guy also had a 'Special theory of evolution' in the same book.
The general theory of evolution says all life on earth evolved from a common ancestor.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Something I got from this forum, though I can't remember where and when, was:
Why is it that religious people use "religion" as a term of abuse? It seems paradoxical. If I wanted to insult creationism, I wouldn't do so by calling it science. So true.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Dredge writes: I don't know the general theory of evolution. It's something foreign to me.
Forget Darwinism for a sec. The general theory of evolution says all life on earth evolved from a common ancestor. Dredge writes: Not really. Some forms of life (difficult to define) found in and around the MOR's don't adhere to that general "rule" you set out.
This is a theory of universal common ancestry, isn't it?
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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He-he-he
They automatically do it by calling scientific theories 'faith'. Not many of the average creationists on this forum seem intelligent enough to get why it's such a ridiculously stupid argument. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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This one is just as funny.
Dredge writes: I don't consider myself a Darwinist; I accept the mechanisms involved in evolutionary theory as practised today. It includes natural selection as one of the mechanisms. Darwin was brilliant in his day with the limited amount of information he had available. So, I don't find you calling me a Darwinist as an insult. I wish I had his brilliance. Darwinists are so gullible. If you really want to insult me then call me a Newtonist. I would not appreciate that one at all with my satellite phone and GPS and stuff like like working so well on Einstein's theories...
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Yes, and creationists keep on quoting Kerkut as if nobody else in the world can read that book for free on what my aged mother calls 'The Interwebs'.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Porosity, don't be so bad on him. At least I read quite a few real scientific articles on Genetics because of the false claims Dredge keeps on making. Not that I understand much of it, but, even for a novice like me, it's easy to point out the false claims Dredge made.
Hey, I even passed a first year course in genetics at Uni because of the ridiculously stupid things creationists tend towrite about everything.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
CRR writes: I did. Nothing in there contradicts evolutionary theory.
Follow the links.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Dredge writes: Nope. The opposite. It's a conclusion. You forgot to mention the widdle ol' fact that "common ancestry" is an assumption... Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
OMG, CRR. Most people here don't have the mentality of a kindergarten child. You using different colours and fonts and stuff like that trying to impress people shows your mentality.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Not at all.
CRR writes: The oldest fossils of what we call life are the fossils of prokaryotes. We have those fossils in WA, SA and Greenland. They are found in rocks 3 800 million to 3 500 million years old. They are not wales nor humans nor cockroaches or anything like that. They are prokaryotes. The rocks they are found in were deposited under sea water. Exhibit A. How about an example? We see fossils in the rocks (A). Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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