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Author Topic:   What are common creationist strawmen?
Loudmouth
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05-04-2004 7:29 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by jt
05-04-2004 6:39 PM


I am assuming that this is going to be used as a guide for your own personal research instead of as a starting point for debate in this thread. So, I will list a few that I see the most, but are totally unrelated:
{strawman: what evolution actually states)
1. Evolution is a completely random process: The major mechanisms of evolution are random mutations and natural selection. Selection is not random.
2. Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics: Well, it doesn't, to put it bluntly. An input of energy can drive a system towards higher entropic order. The input of energy for the earth is the sun.
3. The origin of life and the evolution of life are the same theory: Again, just not true. Evolution requires that life is present, while the origin of life (abiogenesis) is how that life came be. A little similie. Mining for iron is to abiogenesis as car manufacturing is to evolution. You can't have evolution without life, but the two are not related.

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