I think this thread has become one of the most enlightening topics about the evolution-creation debate.
First we have an engineer asking people to use common sense to solve a poorly diagrammed question. Later we found but that the question isn't even solvable given the data we have been given, but then we are told the answer doesn't matter.
Now Taz is suggesting that an engineer who is a creationist has no business commenting about evolution, because it is not their field of study, and thus they can't have an informed opinion about it,
And so does this mean that a physicist can't have an informed opinion about evolution? How about a medical doctor? Or an anatomist? Or an archeologist. For that matter, virtually NONE of the science fields are a study of evolution. My good friend has a Ph.D in molecular biology. He told me his expertise has zero to do with the Theory of Evolution, and that it is entirely meaningless to his work. He doesn't know how leopards gained spots, or a walking stick evolved to look like a twig.-any lay person on the street is as informed about this question as he is.
And that's just it, nobody knows about evolution. Who is an expert on the entire field of evolutionary study, you show that person to me? Is Richard Dawkins, the guy who doesn't even know the full name of Charles Darwins book? Is P.Z. Meyers the expert we should defer to? He can't even debate the subject, so he hides behind a highly censored blog, which is more like a Don Rickles insult act. Is Eugenie Scott the expert? She states that one shouldn't even attempt debating the subject, because they will be made to look like fools.
How about Lawrence Krauss, the theoretical physicist who imagines floating waves of strings or other dimensions we can never see, writing on Huffingtonpost about evolution? Is he the expert we should bow to and say-oh well, they must know something we don't? Or is the expert Neil Shubin, he actually has a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology, and he has no idea what mechanisms formed a cell. He says that the same recipe for development forms all of our organs from teeth to breast, but he has absolutely no idea where this recipe came from and why. And he still is arguing that Tiktallic is a transition from fish to land animals even though its existence was millions of years after tetra-pods were already walking on the earth. Is he the expert that knows everything we don't, so we should just close our eyes and believe him?
This is what virtually every form of media, and every website on the internet that deals with evolution wants us to accept-that somewhere (who knows where) there is some expert scientist who knows all about evolution, but his name is a secret. But believe us, they know. And so when e tell you evolution is a fact, its because we have faith that an expert has told us it is so. Who are we to doubt. if they tell us that the reason a diver can perform a perfect 3 1/2 inward pike somersault with perfect balance and timing, while at the same time their brain is monitoring 100's of different functions of their eyes and heart and breathing, is because a few billion years ago some kind of chemical (again please don't ask what) was very sloppy at multiplying and kept breaking down and screwing up.
You see if there was a plan, none of this could have happened, life as we see it can only exist if there was so much chaos that everything was in constant flux and constantly unpredictably mutating and malfunctioning. Its the whole malfunctioning of random mixes of chemicals, that's why we have a brain that can do somersaults, and math, and read poetry. Its just a bunch of bad accidents with paint. An expert knows this to be true. What Taz wants you to know is that you should just believe him (please stop asking who!!, its a gay, insane guy with an IBM ok?), because common sense can't figure this out.
Thank you for that Taz. Only the experts can understand evolution, it defies common sense! So true Taz, so true.
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