Evolution doesn't make sense.

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Originally posted by Lorenzo7:
Third, the embryos of fish,
amphibians, birds and mammals look virtually identical in an early stage of development, becoming different only at later stages.
...while the third is
downright false.

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I take it that you have never suffered through a semester or even () a year of vertebrate embryology. As someone who has (thankfully long enough ago that much of the tedium has departed from memory ) I can tell you that you are wrong. I think that you are confusing some of Haeckels statements (Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny) with modern embryology (no, Ontgeny does not recapitulate phylogeny, at least not through end terminal addition as Haeckel claimed although molecular biology indicates that earlier stage alterations are far more key). Many aspects of the early stages are very similar, and the differences between the branchpoints are often the focus of intense molecular biology study to understand how mutations lead to the alterations in the molecular pathways taken by the organism. Please wait untill you have sweated through the first part of the course, just trying to tell pig from chicken from human (it is possible, but just barely) in the early stages of development before you make statements like this. At a minimum please look beyond either a high school text book and your local creationist "literature".------------------
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz

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Originally posted by Peter:
Time doesn't actually exist (try measuring it directly like-for-like).

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It is a convenient abtraction that fits with our perception of
reality.

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Hey Peter, what do you think of the concept that time, per say, is really only a measure of the increase in the universal entropy. And, just so that there is no confusion, I understand that while entropy may be increasing as a universal measure, it has local flucuations, ie areas of negative entropy, that can partially account for things such as life and evolution. God, that was a long sentance .Arggghhhh, forgot my signature
"Chance Favors the Prepared Mind" L. Pasteur
Taz

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[This message has been edited by Dr_Tazimus_maximus, 04-01-2002]

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Originally posted by keenanvin:
Evolution is the survival of the fittest. Those who are fit to survive can breed and have offspring which have their traits

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Uhhh, not to nit-pick , but you are describing Natural Selection, the mechanism or one of the mechanisms which appear(s) to drive evolution.------------------
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz

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I agree as you say 'something' had to create the first ever living things wether that is bacteria or whatever. But if that something is a someone, say God then, he too had to be created also. The answer God has always been there does not make sense anymore so than someone telling a creationist that evolution does not make sense.
So who or what created God then?No one will ever know how everything came about in the whole universe. It's not just earth...its everything.

Hi Blackroseuk. This thread hasn't had any meaningful dialogue in it for about 10 years. There are probably more active threads that you can peruse.

Haha I didn't notice. Ok, thanks

Easiest way to find recent topics is to click on the "all topics" link at the top. That way, you can see all of the most recent ones in somewhat of a chronological order, albeit not in order by topic so you need to be careful what you post.

if you're going to quote huge chunks of someone else's writings it's best practice to reference them. Teach Evolution and Ask Hard QuestionsBy Michael J. Behe
Michael J. Behe, Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, is author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution.For example, let's look at three claims of evidence for Darwinian evolution often cited by high school textbooks. First, as the use of antibiotics has become common, mutant strains of resistant bacteria have become more common, threatening public health. Second, darkcolored variants of a certain moth species evaded predation by birds because their color matched the sooty tree trunks of industrial England. Third, the embryos of fish, amphibians, birds and mammals look virtually identical in an early stage of development, becoming different only at later stages.http://www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_ksnytb81399.htm

I did not read every post in this forum so forgive me if I am a little off subject here. I just wanted to comment on this particular quote. I just noticed that there is not one single reference to a species evolving into a completely different species. I know its an old question but it has yet to be answered. Is there any example anywhere in recorded history of one species mutating into a fully separate species? I am willing to bet I won't get a single straight answer referencing an actual recorded event.

There are millions of such examples, many ongoing today. Lizard Evolution in Action

You're right that you won't get a single answer, because here is a list of a dozen such records: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.htmlIt does, of course, take very many generations for a new species to arise from an old one, so we primarily observe it happening in species that reproduce quite quickly. But we can, of course, see evidence of speciation in both the fossil record and in the genetic code.

First: define species. A common problem in this line of argument with creationists is an inability to agree on commonly agreed upon terms. I could assume that you are using the definition of species accepted by science, but I could be very well wrong because creationists tend to pick and choose what science topics they accept.

Since examples have been given by other posters, I'd just like to point out a strange inconsistency in creationist rhetoric.Let's hear it from creation.com, in their list of "Arguments we think creationists should NOT use". So, could you guys sort this out among yourselves?According to you, new species don't arise, and this is a creationist argument. According to creation.com, new species have been observed to form, and this is "an important part of the creation model".So some creationists say that this doesn't happen, and some say that it does, but all creationists claim that whatever happens it supports creationism.

Ok... not one single example. Even the things you all referenced do not actually have a recorded example of this happening. Can any of you give me the name of an animal that started as one animal, then became a completely different animal. As in catfish becomes seagull, or frog becomes sloth, or termite becomes turtle. Nope, I am very confident that you all will point out the millions of examples, but not actually name a single one. Why? Because the best you can do is find a bunch of similar fossils, or disfigured fossils and line them up so they look like one came from another. I can do the same thing to prove that Beach balls come from peas. Pea, jawbreaker, golf ball, baseball, softball, kickball, basketball, beach ball. All round, each one is larger and more complex than the next, yet no one has ever seen a pea evolve into a jawbreaker. Do not focus on whether or not peas become jawbreakers. DESCRIBE one of the millions of examples of one species evolving into a completely different species. Actually say the names of the animals and the records showing the evolution. Not lined up fossils but an actual recorded incident. I'm debating whether I should even bother checking back for a straight answer. I am sure you will just insult me and remind me of the millions of examples no one wants to actually describe. I took a long look at that, its a very long record of people finding variations in species (not one species becoming another) or men producing new species by hybridization, which is not the same as evolution since that breeding would not have occurred in nature. Edited by amp1022, : No reason given.