I am not questioning the validity of the education you have recieved but I am very surprised to see some of what you have said given the field that you are in.
During one of my graduate courses in microbiology...
alaninnont writes:
My time on a university biology board was a shock.
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You appear to have a degree and perhaps higher, but to say something as silly as "
There have been no beneficial mutations documented that increase the complexity of the organism." (
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I get the sense that when atheists talk about evolution, they are defining it basically as change.
How do
you define it then? How was it defined in your courses and textbooks? What is the difference between what you where taught in university biology classes that differ from what people here (atheists) have defined it?
Complex organs like the eye could not have evolved since there are many steps that give no benefit to the organism and there is no reason to continue along a path to build them.
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You didn't take this in school? Perhaps you didn't. With your education however wouldn't answering such a question be fairly easy? It took me a few seconds to begin a search for your answer {Google-> Wiki->References at bottom of page} but as a biologist you use this as evidence against evolution without even checking if each step in the evolution of the eye has a benefit? Come on now, this is a typical creationist tactic and hardly fitting for a microbiologist.
We see the extinction of many species but no new species appearing.
Oh? Check your textbooks. Try a journal or two. How you managed to miss this while getting a degree is beyond me.
I've been trying for the last couple of months to get a handle on the issue. I been reading some books, thinking, and visiting evolution and ID sites and am right now tending toward the existence of a creator as more probable than complete chance.
The issue has been right in front of you the whole time you took your biology classes, sat on the biology board, conducted research, and reviewed others papers. Yet its only in the last couple months that "
complete chance" didn't sound quite right to you? Then you figured that ID sites would provide you a better answer than your peers in the field of science that you trained in?
Though I can accept that you may actually have taken biology classes, I am forced to think that your school sucks.