Quicksink,
Ad-hoc/Ad-hominem attacks are a sign of ignorance. I enjoyed your fictional piece however and by the way I am a guy. I'm sure you are aware that personal attacks and denial are not refutation.
Quetzal,
Punk Eek does not have a mechanism as I stated. Here's why: The original postulated mechanism was mutation and natural selection. Natural selection selects the beneficial mutation. Over time this was to lead to macro-evolution, change of kinds, not just speciation. Creationists accept speciation and natural selection (which was originally postulated by Creationist Edward Blythe 30 years prior to Darwin's origin of the species). We do not believe that kinds have changed. In another string people were fussing over kinds which most creationists will define as groupings above species. Dogs v cats, reptiles v mammals, birds v reptiles. The fossil record bears this out as no transitional forms have ever been found and Darwin predicted that they would. You claimed that there were lots of transitional formsl. Go ahead name some,hell, name one. In the sixties the Wistar Institute's report concluded, not that evolution was impossible, but that there was not enough time for mutation and natural selection to account for macro-evolution i.e. change between kinds. In response Gould and Eldridge modified Gouldschmit and came up with Punk Eek. However, the morphology of irreducible complexity I referred to, cannot be explained by mutation and natural selection via geographical boundaries. By the way morphology is simply structures and irreducible complexity just means that the interdependent structures do not have halfway forms. They must be whole and intact or nothing. Darwin referred to this at the end of the origin of the species in the last chapter titled problems with the theory. His original analysis of complete complex structures was correct. A wing cannot have half feathers or half musculature to power them. Gould and Eldridge have postulated about irreducible structures spontaneously arising referring to bursts of evolution within the geological boundaries. The problem is still what would cause the sudden morphology that then was naturally selected? There is no known mechanism and mutation has been demonstrated to be incapable. All punk eek has is natural selection via geography but no cause of the structure that is selected. Hence no mechanism.
Next, the law of biogenesis. Gee, I learned that phrasing from my High School Biology class. You claim it is only an observation,however; there has never been an exception observed. That's pretty much the definition of a natural law. Repeated observations without exceptions.
As well, the Bible doesn't have to use the latin phrases does it? Since Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic (the original Biblical languages, mostly Greek and Hebrew) predate latin that just doesn't seem fair. The concepts are there, however. In Genesis it says (in Hebrew) that God quit creating. No more creation is the first law of thermodynamics, no more matter, a constant amount, just transition of one to the other (Vacuum fluctuations are things by the way which require energy by the way and require particle accelerators which are artifical designs and constructions by man.) Steady state is still just a hypothesis.
Entropy is also in Romans eight which I already posted, but again, it says the Creation waits to be delivered from it's bonday to decay. The translation is from the New American Standard Bible, which is a word for word translation from the Greek. One of the best translations available.
Both of these predictions of natural laws that are in the Bible and contradicted by macro-evolution.
So somebody please explain the mechanism of Punk Eek without just rehashing selection via geography. That is an incomplete explanation. As well, how would one falsify Punk Eek?
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