Whoops. That's what I get for writing so early in the morning. I've confused your name with that of a moderator at the EvoWiki, who shortens his name (Apokryltaros) to Mr A.
I also forgot to thank Rrhain (although, Rrhain, I noticed you did give me the 'eye is designed backwards' line. If you're an expert on eyes now, perhaps you could respond to my other thread:
Pigmentation of the Retinal Glial Cells )
Dr A writes:
If you wanted help, you could just have asked for it, you know?
Ok. I would like some help with this. There are two main points I want to address, and tried to do so here:
1. Firstly, creationists will always deny that junk DNA is in fact junk. They will say that just because we have no idea what it does, that doesn't mean it does nothing. I can't address this in the article, so is there another way that I can 'uncouple' biochemistry from anatomy, or otherwise validate this method?
2. The 'assumption' of common descent, rather than common design. Creationists seem to think that designed objects, like cars, can be categorised in a nesting manner too. So they don't see nesting as evidence of anything. I've currently got this:
quote:
Whether a car has air-conditioning is completely independent of whether it has power-steering, for example. Life, however, shows a clear nested hierarchy, at least with regards to multicellular organisms.
By the way, I do like that page. I especially like the cladograms contrasting cladogenesis and orthogenesis. Do you have the copyright info for those pictures? I'd like to see if I can use them too at the EvoWiki.
Do you think contributing to two wikis would be too much for you? EvoWiki could always do with more contributors. Otherwise, I'd just ask you to link to some of our pages in your external links sections. For example, we have a very (very!) comprehensive article on
Archaeopteryx. In fact, it's bordering on unreadable, being authored by a paleornithology student. I'll certainly be linking to the SkepticWiki in future!
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