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Author Topic:   Can you disprove this secular argument against evolution?
jar
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Message 257 of 293 (805576)
04-19-2017 10:27 AM
Reply to: Message 256 by bluegenes
04-19-2017 10:15 AM


why forexhr brings us so many laughs.
bluegenes writes:
forexhr writes:
Given the fact that you cannot comprehend something so simple(that you cannot spend something that has already been spent), it's no wonder that you bought the theory of evolution from the Darwinian evangelists.
If you could actually grasp the implications of the two papers you linked to in the O.P. and the two I've linked to, you would be thanking me for pointing out where you've gone wrong, rather than continuing to bluster.
Last year I bought a car. But now I plan to drive up into the mountains where there is ice and snow.
forexhr seems to suggest the only choice is to start over and buy a new car.
You seem to think just acquiring studded ice&snow tires might be sufficient.
I tend to wonder if just some chains might do the same.
But then maybe the tires I have might even be just good enough as they are to get by in the snow.
Yet it might be wise to toss a couple bags of kitty litter in the trunk just in case.

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jar
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Message 260 of 293 (805579)
04-19-2017 11:13 AM
Reply to: Message 258 by Taq
04-19-2017 10:58 AM


and there are lots of solutions.
Taq writes:
If beneficial mutations are possible then it is only a matter of time until a random mutation is beneficial, just as it is only a matter of time until a random lottery will produce a winner. Since we can see that DNA differences between species are beneficial in those species, then we already know that beneficial mutations can happen. You don't need to preprogram mutations. Random mutations will find those beneficial changes just fine.
But wait!!!!! There's more.
Just as with a lottery there is not just one winning solution. There are lots of solutions that can be winners; maybe smaller prizes but still winners. But there is the advantage that in living things unlike lottery tickets, even the ones that did not win the last lottery are carried forward and so might win the next lottery.
Only those mutations that are so bad you don't get to stick around for the next lottery are completely weeded out. They don't get to play and those players are marked "EXTINCT".

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