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Cold Foreign Object 
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Message 88 of 154 (121054)
07-01-2004 11:51 PM
Reply to: Message 87 by RAZD
06-15-2004 4:00 PM


Re: Wanted: productive discussion!
quote:
Irreducible Complexity" (IC) does not meet that test because (1) it has been disproved,
Listen closely:
The examples of IC in Behe's book have not been disproved.
You evos are locked into "step by tiny step", those IC systems defy the step by tiny step dogma. There is no way around it.
IC systems exist and they are the product of ID.

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Message 95 of 154 (126134)
07-21-2004 12:39 AM
Reply to: Message 94 by arachnophilia
07-12-2004 6:27 PM


Just Assert IC Systems are Random
have you read behe's book
I own a copy - so what.
he changed his definition of ic outside the context of the book
Bare assertion.
"Unintelligent Design" by Mark Perakh (physicist) [2004]
In this book, written to refute Behe, Perakh admits IC systems exist then he arbitrarily asserts that they are the product of some wacko theory called ATP, which of course is a random probabilities theory.
Perakh writes a book and sidesteps Behe's challenge to the foundational premise of ToE: ultra slow step by tiny step.
What are you evos making this stuff up ?
IC systems defy your foundational premise.
These systems are the fingerprints of God.
The chronological sequence of history has Darwinian and neo-Darwinian claims "disproving" Genesis claims VIA the ultra slow step by tiny step processes of evolution. THEN the discovery of IC systems. These systems disprove your ultra slow evo process TO DISPROVE GENESIS. The Bible, in Romans, ONLY claims enough fingerprints to deduce a Creator from. The fact that IC systems are few is in perfect harmony with Romans.
Micro evolution within animal species is a fact - and this fact is taken to the ridiculous extreme out into inter-species and humans and the macro.

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Message 98 of 154 (126310)
07-21-2004 5:00 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by arachnophilia
07-21-2004 1:52 AM


Re: Just Assert IC Systems are Random
so yes. he changed his definition.
Which you did for him.
no, this is an argument from incredulity. i've seen a number of experiments that use a computer programmed with evolutionary algoriths that ROUTINELY created systems behe would have called irreducibly complex.
This opinion of yours totally avoids the evidence of your Mark Perakh and his avoidance of Behe's actual claim. I will not recognize your argument until you address mine.
ATP is a THEORY created to explain why something is not ID. You theorists are as such because to consider evidence is to entertain God.
Then you cite Genesis to say God is not the Creator.
Very convincing argument - just assert contrary to the intended meaning of the text.
i don't see how you can use any verse in romans to justify creationism.
Romans tells us WHY so many people deny the existence of God as Creator while wrapped around the icons of evolution.
romans was written by the apostle paul. the same woman-hating, gay-hating, judgemental bastard that seems to have neglected almost everything christ was actually about. paul is hardly god. i wouldn't even call his letters "inspired." one christian to another.
Pure rant. Your reaction betrays the hate in you.
If you are a christian - then I am an atheist.
Your moronic rant against Paul diametrically reveals the truth of his apostleship.
Acts 9 says Jesus Himself chose Paul.
Your smear of Paul is mental midget political correct nonsense.
You are a typical evo who thinks that they are born an expert in the Bible.
Darwin and Huxley were admitted racists but this undeniable fact is conveniently winked at.
Evolution: the precious theory of the philosophy behind fascism, Marxism, and the Holocaust.

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Message 103 of 154 (126371)
07-21-2004 8:11 PM
Reply to: Message 101 by Loudmouth
07-21-2004 6:01 PM


Re: Just Assert IC Systems are Random
Notice that you had to turn a scientific theory into a philosophy to make the mud stick
I notice you had to conveniently ignore the slander which produced my factual statement.
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Message 111 of 154 (126722)
07-22-2004 5:02 PM
Reply to: Message 109 by Loudmouth
07-22-2004 1:19 PM


Re: Just Assert IC Systems are Random
You will notice that I freely admit that there are racists in both camps of the evolution debate. I just happen to believe that someone can say something true while still being wrong about other things. A truthful statement is a truthful statement no matter what a person does or believes outside of that statement.
Agreed.

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Message 112 of 154 (126738)
07-22-2004 5:59 PM
Reply to: Message 110 by Silent H
07-22-2004 2:46 PM


Weren't you the guy that said if 10,000 scientists produced reports saying porn is not harmful to kids then they were all liars and secret pedophiles?
You are the "guy" defending porno exposure to kids is not harmful.
The position is only taken because it is.
It is called a brute fact - not a matter of opinion.
that would make you a ranter as well... and a hater.
I am a hater - everyone is, but the vocal anti-hate crowd lies about their human nature to hate. They hate anyone who does not agree with their politically "correct" litmus tests/nonsense, therefore this hating is acceptable.
I hate the double standard here. Arach claims to be a christian, but he/she instantly used politically correct smear nonsense the moment I referenced Romans, which is a source for ID philosophy (obviously).
This means Arach vehemently despised what Romans says and sought to slander the source via a politically "correct" hate argument, an argument which has nothing to do with the text and its relation to ID.
Imagine a "christian" who rejects Romans ? Now that is an oxymoron.
What Arach is really saying is that the Bible MUST pass his/her politically correct litmus test OR it aint inspired.
Did it ever enter Arach's mind that this current militantly secular generation and its values are the problem and not what Romans may or may not argue ?
Arach's objective frame of reference is the views of the crowd/secular world at large to be indisputably correct and any other conflicting source (Romans) wrong - and he/she is a christian !
The source of ALL ID philosophy is the Bible, namely Genesis and Romans which makes Arach's outburst of hate rant against Romans silly and indicative of the infuriating truths contained therein.
Romans speaks for God, this is the claim of the Canon, and Romans tells us what God thinks of evolution. You know nerves are struck when Romans is "refuted" with non sequitors about women and gays.
So how does this charge NOT effect IDC as well as modern evolutionists. The only thing standing between us is one kind to another.
That "only thing" is the alleged evolution. There are no transitionals from one species to another.
And indeed modern evolutionary theorists, believing all kinds come from same origins, tend NOT to view any species or race (if there are even such things as races) as inferior/superior.
At least you are honest enough to place the word "theorists" following "modern evolutionary", it is called theory because of the paucity of facts.
The only reason these theorists believe all kinds come from same origins is because Genesis is not an option. Genesis is not an option because that would admit God created, therefore philosophy is driving the science and not evidence.
Charles Darwin and Huxley sure viewed races as superior/inferior. Need I post the quotes ?
But, of course, modern evos reject Darwin's racism, I only remind them of evolutions origin when they "refute" the Bible via Arach's subjective secular rants.

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Message 117 of 154 (126781)
07-22-2004 9:44 PM
Reply to: Message 113 by NosyNed
07-22-2004 6:11 PM


Re: Transitionals
Ned:
Please summarize the argument contained in your links.
The pictoral message of Dark Star's avatar sums up my basic beliefs.
IC and complexity in general indicates ID. The brighter the intelligence equals the complexity of the complexity.
The following link equates "chance" to evidence-against ID (worldview assumption ?). Also, the evo writer (?) equates complexity to be less likely the product of chance.
http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-10-t-000075.html
Few scientists question the reality of evolution. I assume, with the majority, that it has occurred. What else can be said concerning this most mysterious of all biological processes? There is little more of which one can be certain. No one knows how, or how many times, life has originated. The more we learn about the complexity of even the simplest living systems, the less likely becomes the probability that life originated by chance.

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Message 119 of 154 (126803)
07-22-2004 11:13 PM
Reply to: Message 115 by Loudmouth
07-22-2004 6:31 PM


Hi Loudmouth:
Willowtree writes:
The source of ALL ID philosophy is the Bible
Loudmouth in response writes:
So it would be fair to call ID non-scientific?
Everyone abides by philosophy.
You are really trying to assert the Bible to not be evidence-based, unlike the claim of science. The Bible, unfortunately, does have a dogma-driven reputation, but this "bad" reputation is actually completely false.
Does Roman's say that God's creation did not come about through evolution?
Yes it does.
And I define "evolution" by its emotive and reportive definition.
Loudmouth, you are an atheist - yes or no ?
If yes, then why do you constantly seek to validate evolution with a source that was written to evidence and declare that God created Adam and animals ?
This indicates acceptance of the source to be an authority and longing for its approval.
Since evolution is consistent with the evidence found in the creation
Evolution within animal kind/species is a fact - but that is all. Quadrupeds did not evolve from bi-peds or birds or vice-versa.
Humans did not evolve. Genesis says God created. The hard evidence for claims of human evolution equates by volume to a box of bones of contention - hardly the amount of evidence needed to make such a definitive proclamation for the history of all humanity. Human evolution is asserted BECAUSE the alternative is not an option. The reason it is not an option is because Romans says God's wrath incapacitates the ability to comprehend Him. Continued defiance toward the percieved encroachments of a Creator triggers the manifestation of the penalty.
ToE has many brilliant God-senseless persons taking the truths of micro-evolution and insisting the process to be nature-wide - all because of the incapacitation.
then this would mean that evolution is a theory that best sees God in his creation.
Emotively and reportively, evolution means the God of Genesis was not involved.
This comment of yours is actually quite ridiculous.
IF evolution were true, then of course.
Random, chance, accident, fluke, mindless, and purposeless are all adjectives that have the dual silent meaning that the God of Genesis was not involved.
Then, I ask, how do these observations, if true, evidence-against God ? Only when this question is asked does the fast as light response come "we never said it does" - but the emotive and reportive meaning remains. Evos have figured out a way to have their cake and eat it too.
If evolution is devoid of Godsense, then evolution would not be reflected in the evidence found in the creation.
Already answered.
How did birds get in the air ? How did the cuckoo bird evolve ? How did migrations of thousands of miles to the exact same locations evolve ? These are gaping holes - also known as the fingerprints of God declared in Romans 1.
The evo explanations are pure comedy.
we do have fine grade morphologocal changes in marine deposits showing small changes over time in shell structure. The end points of this transition could be considered to be macroevolution
"Could be considered" !
That is a huge leap - all because you have spoken up for macro-evolution.
Like I said, micro events taken to macro assumptions, but these generous leaps are consistent with the biggest leap of dogma: The key to the past is the present !
Unlike creationists, real scientists don't have the option of ignoring the evidence that doesn't fit into their theory.
This was my exact complaint which started this particular exchange - only I leveled it at evos in the context of IC systems in defiance of foundational evo doctrine of ultra slow step by tiny step improvement.
IC systems obliterate slow evo processes, in response, evos arbitrarily assert them to be the product of randomness/ATP.
Racism has nothing to do with the theory, only with the rhetoric that panicky creationists put forth. They can't attack evolution on a scientific basis so they have to attack it's proponents. Copernicus could have been a child raping, women murdering, public urinator but his theories about the movement of the celestial bodies is still accurate.
Agreed.
I never cite the skeletons of evolution unless an evo initiates politically correct slander rants as their "refutation" to Biblical reference.
If you want to blame someone for corrupting your translation of Genesis, blame God for making the evidence so convincing.
This is as old as Genesis 3:12, Adam speaking "the woman YOU gave me" caused me to eat.
Adam blamed God - we all do the same - aint nothing new under the sun.

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