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Author Topic:   Evolution is True Because Life Needs It
Dr Adequate
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Message 5 of 188 (644460)
12-18-2011 3:16 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Invader Scooch
12-17-2011 2:36 AM


The answer to the above statement is simply because life needs it.
Things don't happen just because they're useful.
If we go by the Creation model, all life was just plopped down as it was with no mechanism to adhere to the change, no way to counteract its effects.
Yes well, a creationist could argue ... wait ... I'll get my creationist hat ...
Puts on creationist hat, looks like a dick.
... where was I, oh yes, creationism. A creationist would point out how many species, and indeed genera and families and so on, have in fact gone extinct (and done so, even according to non-loons, without surviving descendants) since God magicked the world into existence six thousand years ago, and that God doesn't give a cuss about this 'cos he's going to destroy the world anyway when Armageddon comes.

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Message 33 of 188 (646216)
01-03-2012 5:14 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by mike the wiz
01-03-2012 4:03 PM


Re: Fun with Strawmen!
The actual facts, if you ignore evolutionary dogma, about the fossil record being a record of life evolving rather than being a grave, shows that the Cambrian contains snails. [...] If you say that none-evolution also favours evolution and does not falsify it, then logically you can not falsify evolution.
Please stop using the word "logically", as logic is not a quality your statements exhibit.
Evolution is of course falsifiable, but it is not falsifiable by observing (relative) stasis in some groups any more than you can falsify the proposition that people move house, move from city to city, and even move from country to country by finding that one person or even several people have lived their whole lives in the same house.
Yes, the Cambrian contains snails. Here's some of the things it doesn't contain:
Ornithorhynchus
Tachyglossus
Zaglossus
Dasycercus
Dasykaluta
Dasyuroides
Dasyurus
Myoictis
Neophascogale
Parantechinus
Phascolosorex
Pseudantechinus
Sarcophilus
Antechinus
Micromurexia
Murexechinus
Murexia
Paramurexia
Phascogale
Phascomurexia
Planigale
Antechinomys
Ningaui
Sminthopsis
Myrmecobius
Caluromys
Caluromysiops
Chironectes
Didelphis
Lutreolina
Philander
Marmosa
Micoureus
Monodelphis
Tlacuatzin
Metachirus
Chacodelphys
Cryptonanus
Gracilinanus
Lestodelphys
Marmosops
Thylamys
Glironia
Hyladelphys
Diprotodontia
Hypsiprymnodon
Dendrolagus
Dorcopsis
Dorcopsulus
Lagorchestes
Micropus
Onychogalea
Petrogale
Setonix
Thylogale
Wallabia
Lagostrophus
Aepyprymnus
Bettongia
Potorous
Acrobates
Distoechurus
Dactylopsila
Gymnobelideus
Petaurus
Hemibelideus
Petauroides
Petropseudes
Pseudocheirus
Pseudochirulus
Pseudochirops
Tarsipes
Burramys
Cercartetus
Ailurops
Strigocuscus
Phalanger
Spilocuscus
Trichosurus
Wyulda
Phascolarctos
Lasiorhinus
Vombatus
Dromiciops
Notoryctes
Caenolestes
Lestoros
Rhyncholestes
Echymipera
Microperoryctes
Rhynchomeles
Isoodon
Perameles
Peroryctes
Macrotis
Amblysomus
Calcochloris
Neamblysomus
Carpitalpa
Chlorotalpa
Chrysochloris
Chrysospalax
Cryptochloris
Eremitalpa
Geogale
Limnogale
Microgale
Oryzorictes
Micropotamogale
Potamogale
Echinops
Hemicentetes
Setifer
Tenrec
Elephantulus
Macroscelides
Petrodromus
Rhynchocyon
Orycteropus
Dendrohyrax
Heterohyrax
Procavia
Elephas
Loxodonta
Dugong
Trichechus
Cynocephalus
Galeopterus
Brachylagus
Bunolagus
Caprolagus
Lepus
Nesolagus
Oryctolagus
Pentalagus
Poelagus
Pronolagus
Romerolagus
Sylvilagus
Ochotona
Allenopithecus
Cercopithecus
Chlorocebus
Erythrocebus
Miopithecus
Macaca
Lophocebus
Papio
Theropithecus
Cercocebus
Mandrillus
Rungwecebus
Colobus
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Presbytis
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Semnopithecus
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Homo
Pan
Pongo
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Callibella
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Mirza
Phaner
Avahi
Indri
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Varecia
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Galago
Arctocebus
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Perodicticus
Pseudopotto
Aplodontia
Callosciurus
Dremomys
Exilisciurus
Funambulus
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Lariscus
Menetes
Nannosciurus
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Rhinosciurus
Rubrisciurus
Sundasciurus
Tamiops
Ratufa
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Sciurus
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Tamiasciurus
Aeretes
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Graphiurus
Chaetocauda
Dryomys
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Glirulus
Glis
Castor
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Heteromys
Liomys
Chaetodipus
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Cratogeomys
Geomys
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Zygogeomys
Allactaga
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Pygeretmus
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Lagurus
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Lemmus
Microtus
Myodes
Myopus
Neodon
Neofiber
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Phaiomys
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Cansumys
Cricetulus
Cricetus
Mesocricetus
Phodopus
Tscherskia
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Zyzomys
Beamys
Cricetomys
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Delanymys
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Prionomys
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Myospalax
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Anomalurus
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Heliophobius
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Abrocoma
Cuscomys
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Cavia
Galea
Microcavia
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Lagidium
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Trinomys
Chaetomys
Coendou
Echinoprocta
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Antilope
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Gazella
Litocranius
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Nanger
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Oreotragus
Ourebia
Pantholops
Procapra
Raphicerus
Saiga
Bison
Bos
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Bubalus
Poephagus
Pseudoryx
Syncerus
Taurotragus
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Hemitragus
Naemorhedus
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Ovibos
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Pantholops
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Philantomba
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Addax
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Oryx
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Pelea
Redunca
Alces
Blastocerus
Capreolus
Hippocamelus
Mazama
Odocoileus
Ozotoceros
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Axis
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Dama
Elaphodus
Elaphurus
Muntiacus
Hydropotes
Giraffa
Okapia
Moschus
Hyemoschus
Moschiola
Tragulus
Ailurus
Atelocynus
Canis
Cerdocyon
Chrysocyon
Cuon
Lycalopex
Lycaon
Nyctereutes
Otocyon
Speothos
Urocyon
Vulpes
Conepatus
Mephitis
Mydaus
Spilogale
Amblonyx
Aonyx
Enhydra
Hydrictis
Lontra
Lutra
Lutrogale
Pteronura
Arctonyx
Eira
Galictis
Gulo
Ictonyx
Lyncodon
Martes
Meles
Mellivora
Melogale
Mustela
Neovison
Poecilogale
Taxidea
Vormela
Odobenus
Arctocephalus
Callorhinus
Eumetopias
Neophoca
Otaria
Phocarctos
Zalophus
Cystophora
Erignathus
Halichoerus
Histriophoca
Hydrurga
Leptonychotes
Lobodon
Mirounga
Monachus
Ommatophoca
Pagophilus
Phoca
Pusa
Bassaricyon
Potos
Bassariscus
Nasua
Nasuella
Procyon
Ailuropoda
Helarctos
Melursus
Tremarctos
Ursus
Eupleres
Fossa
Cryptoprocta
Galidia
Galidictis
Mungotictis
Salanoia
Acinonyx
Caracal
Catopuma
Felis
Leopardus
Leptailurus
Lynx
Pardofelis
Prionailurus
Profelis
Puma
Neofelis
Panthera
Uncia
Atilax
Bdeogale
Crossarchus
Cynictis
Dologale
Galerella
Helogale
Herpestes
Ichneumia
Liberiictis
Mungos
Paracynictis
Rhynchogale
Suricata
Crocuta
Hyaena
Proteles
Nandinia
Chrotogale
Cynogale
Diplogale
Hemigalus
Arctictis
Arctogalidia
Macrogalidia
Paguma
Paradoxurus
Prionodon
Civettictis
Genetta
Poiana
Viverra
Viverricula
Balaena
Eubalaena
Balaenoptera
Megaptera
Eschrichtius
Caperea
Cephalorhynchus
Delphinus
Feresa
Globicephala
Grampus
Lagenodelphis
Lagenorhynchus
Lissodelphis
Orcaella
Orcinus
Peponocephala
Pseudorca
Sotalia
Sousa
Stenella
Steno
Tursiops
Delphinapterus
Monodon
Neophocaena
Phocoena
Phocoenoides
Inia
Lipotes
Platanista
Pontoporia
Kogia
Physeter
Berardius
Hyperoodon
Indopacetus
Mesoplodon
Tasmacetus
Ziphius
Eonycteris
Macroglossus
Megaloglossus
Notopteris
Syconycteris
Melonycteris
Aethalops
Alionycteris
Balionycteris
Chironax
Cynopterus
Dyacopterus
Haplonycteris
Latidens
Megaerops
Otopteropus
Penthetor
Ptenochirus
Sphaerias
Thoopterus
Nyctimene
Paranyctimene
Casinycteris
Epomophorus
Epomops
Hypsignathus
Micropteropus
Nanonycteris
Plerotes
Scotonycteris
Harpyionycteris
Aproteles
Dobsonia
Acerodon
Desmalopex
Mirimiri
Neopteryx
Pteralopex
Pteropus
Styloctenium
Eidolon
Lissonycteris
Myonycteris
Rousettus
Balantiopteryx
Centronycteris
Coleura
Cormura
Cyttarops
Diclidurus
Emballonura
Mosia
Peropteryx
Rhynchonycteris
Saccopteryx
Saccolaimus
Taphozous
Antrozous
Bauerus
Chaerephon
Cheiromeles
Cynomops
Eumops
Molossops
Molossus
Mops
Mormopterus
Myopterus
Nyctinomops
Otomops
Platymops
Promops
Sauromys
Tadarida
Tomopeas
Amorphochilus
Furipterus
Myzopoda
Chilonatalus
Natalus
Nyctiellus
Thyroptera
Mormoops
Pteronotus
Mystacina
Noctilio
Brachyphylla
Carollia
Rhinophylla
Desmodus
Diaemus
Diphylla
Anoura
Choeroniscus
Choeronycteris
Glossophaga
Hylonycteris
Leptonycteris
Lichonycteris
Monophyllus
Musonycteris
Scleronycteris
Lionycteris
Lonchophylla
Platalina
Xeronycteris
Erophylla
Phyllonycteris
Chrotopterus
Glyphonycteris
Lampronycteris
Lonchorhina
Lophostoma
Macrophyllum
Macrotus
Micronycteris
Mimon
Neonycteris
Phylloderma
Phyllostomus
Tonatia
Trachops
Trinycteris
Vampyrum
Ametrida
Ardops
Ariteus
Artibeus
Centurio
Chiroderma
Ectophylla
Enchisthenes
Mesophylla
Phyllops
Platyrrhinus
Pygoderma
Sphaeronycteris
Stenoderma
Uroderma
Vampyressa
Vampyrodes
Sturnira
Cardioderma
Lavia
Macroderma
Megaderma
Nycteris
Rhinolophus
Anthops
Asellia
Aselliscus
Cloeotis
Coelops
Hipposideros
Paracoelops
Paratriaenops
Rhinonicteris
Triaenops
Craseonycteris
Rhinopoma
Miniopterus
Kerivoula
Phoniscus
Harpiocephalus
Harpiola
Murina
Cistugo
Lasionycteris
Myotis
Arielulus
Eptesicus
Hesperoptenus
Lasiurus
Nycticeinops
Nycticeius
Rhogeessa
Scoteanax
Scotoecus
Scotomanes
Scotophilus
Scotorepens
Nyctophilus
Pharotis
Glischropus
Nyctalus
Parastrellus
Perimyotis
Pipistrellus
Scotozous
Barbastella
Corynorhinus
Euderma
Idionycteris
Otonycteris
Plecotus
Chalinolobus
Eudiscopus
Falsistrellus
Glauconycteris
Histiotus
Hypsugo
Ia
Laephotis
Mimetillus
Neoromicia
Philetor
Tylonycteris
Vespadelus
Vespertilio
Atelerix
Erinaceus
Hemiechinus
Mesechinus
Paraechinus
Echinosorex
Hylomys
Neohylomys
Neotetracus
Podogymnura
Solenodon
Crocidura
Diplomesodon
Feroculus
Paracrocidura
Ruwenzorisorex
Scutisorex
Solisorex
Suncus
Sylvisorex
Congosorex
Myosorex
Surdisorex
Anourosorex
Blarinella
Blarina
Cryptotis
Chimarrogale
Chodsigoa
Episoriculus
Nectogale
Neomys
Soriculus
Megasorex
Notiosorex
Sorex
Condylura
Parascalops
Scalopus
Scapanulus
Scapanus
Desmana
Galemys
Neurotrichus
Scaptonyx
Euroscaptor
Mogera
Parascaptor
Scaptochirus
Talpa
Dymecodon
Urotrichus
Uropsilus
Equus
Ceratotherium
Dicerorhinus
Diceros
Rhinoceros
Tapirus
Manis
Dasypus
Calyptophractus
Chaetophractus
Chlamyphorus
Euphractus
Zaedyus
Cabassous
Priodontes
Tolypeutes
Bradypus
Choloepus
Cyclopes
Myrmecophaga
and that's just modern mammalian genera. Shall we start on the insects?
Reality shows that the creatures always produce what they essentially are. The fossils agree.
Nope.

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Message 36 of 188 (646625)
01-05-2012 6:15 PM
Reply to: Message 35 by foreveryoung
01-05-2012 5:57 PM


The essence of argumentation and debate is starting from evidence and using reasoning to come to a conclusion. You guys claim you have all the evidence but you never bother to connect the dots from evidence to conclusion. If you do, the conclusion is not the same from one year to the next. It is a moving goal post. This does not even touch on the fact that the reasoning that you do use is circular more often than not, and when it isn't circular, it is so full of holes it can not hold water.
You are telling falsehoods to us, about us.
Your chances of deceiving us are slim.

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Message 38 of 188 (646627)
01-05-2012 6:27 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by foreveryoung
01-05-2012 6:18 PM


No lies here.
That's why I deliberately used the word "falsehood", rather than lie; I am doing you the doubtful courtesy of supposing that you really are deluded enough to believe what you're saying.
I call em as I see em.
No. You call them as you believe them; your delusions, being counterfactual, can of course have nothing to do with what you have seen.

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Message 41 of 188 (646652)
01-05-2012 8:49 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by foreveryoung
01-05-2012 8:38 PM


Re: from my huge problem with creationist thinking
No-one's out there trying to find evidence that snakes could once talk,
Perhaps snakes didn't talk through speech with sound waves. Ever considered that possibility?
I did not specify talking "through speech with sound waves", just talking.
And unless someone's out there looking for evidence that snakes used to be able to talk telepathically, then I hardly see the relevance of your question.

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Message 42 of 188 (646654)
01-05-2012 9:00 PM
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01-05-2012 8:40 PM


Here are six:
(1) You guys claim you have all the evidence but you never bother to connect the dots from evidence to conclusion. (2) If you do, the conclusion is not the same from one year to the next. (3) It is a moving goal post. (4) This does not even touch on the fact that (5) the reasoning that you do use is circular more often than not, (6) and when it isn't circular, it is so full of holes it can not hold water.
Even you must be able to detect some degree of falsehood in there, since you move directly from asserting that we never do something to making assertions about how we do so when we do.
Every claim I made was a result of my personal experience with atheists and theistic evolutionists over the past 3 years.
But perhaps you overestimate your capacity to detect circular reasoning and arguments with holes in: this would explain why you make false statements on this subject and why you are a creationist.
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Message 46 of 188 (652622)
02-15-2012 5:23 AM
Reply to: Message 45 by Portillo
02-15-2012 4:19 AM


Genetic mutations are mostly harmful. The beneficial ones are relatively minor changes with no evidence they can produce new species. Its easy to explain how the beak of a finch changed when it experienced a new environment, but that does not remotely illustrate a process capable of making finches in the first place.
Can you give me an example of how small changes can turn a shrew into a human?
By consequence of there being lots of them, adding up to a big change.
This is trivially true. If you make enough small changes to the genome of a shrew-like animal, you'll get the genome of a human. If you make enough small changes to the genome of a dinosaur, you'll get the genome of a finch. If you make enough small changes to the text of Moby Dick, you'll get the text of A Tale Of Two Cities. If you make enough small changes to the shape of a square, you'll get the shape of a circle. This is clearly the case.
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Message 57 of 188 (653095)
02-17-2012 11:24 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Portillo
02-17-2012 9:52 PM


Yes, because the evolution between shrews and humans has not been observed. There is no mechanism that can transform a shrew into a human.
See message 46.
Transformations like that never occur, they arent recorded in the fossil record ...
Bollocks.

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Message 85 of 188 (653474)
02-21-2012 3:24 PM


I'd like to suggest that this thread should be scrapped because there aren't any evolutionists who will support the claim in the original post.

  
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Message 101 of 188 (653513)
02-21-2012 11:14 PM
Reply to: Message 96 by markl67
02-21-2012 8:41 PM


Re: more misrepresentation
Fair enough on the science forum comment....understood. As a suggestion to you, perhaps you could show some respect for others beliefs and stop with the "myths" comments.
As to the rest of your post I have no clue what you're talking about. Calling God a critter and expecting to actually examine Him...and I'm committing hubris...?
Well, some people might like to claim that a talking snake outwitted God. Some people might want to claim that a purple anteater played the trombone. I do not wish to give offense. I really don't. But as a nonbeliever, I find these two claims equally plausible.
If you would like to convert me, then that's where you have to start. I start off by thinking that those two propositions are on a level. What you want to do is convince me that one of them is true but the other one is ridiculous.
You're not going to get anywhere if you get into a snit and just tell people that they're not showing enough respect. The world is full of propositions that I don't respect. I don't respect the idea that the Earth is flat. I don't respect the idea that GWB planned 9/11. I don't respect the idea that the pyramids were built by aliens.
As a non-believer, I think that literal belief in the book of Genesis is about on a par with those ideas. This isn't because I've been sitting around trying to think out how to insult or disrespect you, it's just what I happen to think. Perhaps I'm wrong. Oops.
So if you want to go and convert people then it's no use starting off by saying "Oh, you should be more polite, you shouldn't laugh at me." Because your ideas are, on the face of it, laughable. It's up to you to show that they aren't.
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Message 103 of 188 (653520)
02-22-2012 2:46 AM
Reply to: Message 102 by Portillo
02-21-2012 11:25 PM


Re: Prompt for Portillo...
When the creationist Gregor Mendel discovered natural selection ...
That is a lie so huge that I am somewhat surprised that the enormity of the lie was not so massive as to create a black hole and compact us all into a point beyond the event horizon.
This is why evolutionary biologists proclaim minor variation within species such as the peppered moths, as evidence for the grand macro evolutionary changes that happened in the past. Why is it that the best evidence for a mechanism capable of creating complex organisms, body plans, and changing a species into another, is Darwins finches and the peppered moths?
This is, of course, a huge enormous lie. That is not the evidence put forward for large-scale evolution, and anyone who pretends that it is is either droolingly ignorant or a deliberate liar. I shall not speculate as to which category you belong to, but it's certainly one or the other.

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Message 139 of 188 (670905)
08-20-2012 9:44 PM
Reply to: Message 136 by barnes
08-20-2012 7:01 PM


Re: Evolution problem
I think you boys are trying to tell me that the complexity of life happened through random chance.
That would be just one among the many things you are wrong about. No-one has tried to tell you that. Here's a way to find out if someone tells you that: someone will actually tell you that.
By the way, what is it about you guys and the phrase: "random chance"? Really, is there some sort of chance that isn't random? Would there be such a thing as "non-random chance"? Why do you even say stuff like this?

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Message 149 of 188 (670989)
08-21-2012 12:55 PM
Reply to: Message 147 by barnes
08-21-2012 12:48 PM


Re: Evolution problem,silly story
So, to summarize, you have absolutely no idea what the theory of evolution actually says.
Well, that explains why you can't come up with a cogent argument against it.
There are books on the subject, you know. You don't have to spend the whole of the rest of your life wallowing in the filth of your own ignorance.

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Message 155 of 188 (671008)
08-21-2012 3:02 PM
Reply to: Message 154 by barnes
08-21-2012 2:40 PM


Re: Silly creationist story
Again I apologize. I did not realize one could have minute changes in say the heart, lungs or liver without being detrimental.
You didn't? How odd.
But if you have never taken the slightest interest in biology, why the heck are you participating on this forum talking about evolution?
Evolution explains biology, that's what it's there for. So if you know nothing about biology, why are you even interested in evolution?
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Message 165 of 188 (671024)
08-21-2012 5:07 PM
Reply to: Message 163 by barnes
08-21-2012 3:49 PM


Re: Silly creationist story
I am still at a loss, the word selection assumes thought.
No it doesn't.
For example, you will have noticed that scientists sometimes use the term "natural selection". But if you find out what they're talking about, they will explicitly say that this is an unintelligent process.

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