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bluegenes
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Message 29 of 235 (646817)
01-06-2012 4:17 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Anel Vadren
01-06-2012 12:57 AM


Quick brief answers to quick brief questions.
1.How did life with specifications for hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
By chemical evolution involving natural selection for function.
2.How did the DNA code originate?
As above. (1)
3.How could copying errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA instructions to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
With the help of natural selection, drift, and niche filling. Being a microbiologist is filling a very specific niche.
4.Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
It's not. It's taught as one of the major processes that contributes to the evolution of the diversity of life.
5.How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
Mainly by mutation and selection.
6.Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?
They don't look intelligently designed when examined carefully, and evolutionary biologists know they're not intelligently designed because they have examined them carefully.
7.How did multi-cellular life originate?
By single celled organisms forming into colonies, and then reproducing together.
8.How did sex originate?
Through intelligent design by a voyeur? (There are various hypotheses, but we don't know exactly how yet).
9.Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
Who expected which fossils to be discovered when? In a non-evolutionary world, there should be no transitionals. The transitions in form that we have discovered confirm that our biosphere is evolutionary.
10.How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?
They don't. "Similar" doesn't mean unchanged.
11.How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
Intelligence and altruism are produced by variation and selection, particularly in social animals. It might be worth noting when you ask that question that the origin of intelligence cannot be explained by intelligence. Morality and meaning are subjective human constructs, and only created indirectly by blind chemistry in that it created us.
12.Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated as ‘science’?
It isn't. Hypothetical scenarios to illustrate how evolution can happen are sometimes used in science teaching.
13.Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
In our ever increasing understanding of the biosphere, present and past.
14.Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as the operational science?
It isn't.
15.Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
Creationism isn't taught in most science classes.

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bluegenes
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Message 32 of 235 (646828)
01-06-2012 5:08 PM
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01-06-2012 5:01 PM


Re: Quick brief answers to quick brief questions.
Omnivorous writes:
One might also point out, in the spirit of answering as slyly as one is asked, that without evolution there would have been neither intelligence nor science. In that sense, every scientific breakthrough is due to evolution.
You've caught the spirit. I did go for strict literalism on number 15.

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Message 136 of 235 (647195)
01-08-2012 1:06 PM
Reply to: Message 116 by Chuck77
01-08-2012 6:42 AM


Re: One by one
Chuck77 writes:
Can you provide the evidence that natural selection is responsible for this?
That's not one of the 15 questions. But the answer to it is "yes".
Chuck77 writes:
Show the evidence that supports Natural Selection as the mechanism for this.
That's not a question. It's a command.
Chuck77 writes:
May as well do #2 also since you respond with the same unsupported answer.
Chuck77 writes:
Also explain chemical evolution too. How where when did it start?
That's not one of the questions either. The claim of those creationists is that they can stump evolutionists with 15 questions. If you have to keep adding more, then you're showing them to be wrong.
Anyway, question 17 from Chuck. How?: by chemical reactions. Where? On earth. When? About 3.5 to 4 billion years ago.
Now, ask me another question if you want to prove that evolutionists cannot be stumped by 17 questions.

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