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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
All mutations are bad: I would honestly like to read more about what evolutionist have to say about this Are Mutations Harmful?Evolution and Information: The Nylon Bug Apolipoprotein AI Mutations and Information: A reply to Answers in Genesis regarding the Apo AI Milano mutation Examples of Beneficial Mutations in Humans Examples of Beneficial Mutations and Natural Selection
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Actually, science has led many toward I.D. and Creationism, like Dr. Behe, of whom I'm sure you've heard, author of Darwin's Black Box. My point is simply this: saying that Evolution is scientific and no other view on the origin Dr. Behe has led himself away from science and into mysticism, as evidenced by Darwin's Black Box, a thoroughly unscientific work that is riddled with errors, and his failure to even attempt to perform any scientific research on ID. I am not aware of any proponent of ID and/or creationism who is not also a fundamentalist of some religion, almost all Christian, and is not committed to a religious explanation in spite of any evidence.
My point is simply this: saying that Evolution is scientific and no other view on the origin of life is scientific is dangerous Formally, the theory of evolution does not address the origin of life; it addresses how life changed after the origin. If one says that other view on the orgins of the panoply of life is scientific without investigating other views, then that's dangerous and unwarranted. Saying that no other extant view on the origins of the panoply of life is scientific after investigating other views extensively is a conclusion based on the available evidence. Thank goodness we have done the latter and not the former. Additional evidence of the correctness of our conclusion is afforded by the observation that the ID crowd appears to be distancing temselves even further from actual scientific investigation and committing themselves exclusively to political activism.
In other words, why should the Creationist give an Evolutionism a thought, if the Evolutionist will not do the same for the Creationist How about giving the evidence a thought, and following where it leads, no matter how it may conflict with your preconceptions? We have given creationism far more than a thought. We've investigated it thoroughly, and some continue to investigate it. It has failed every test. Creationism was the dominant scientific paradigm of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The geologists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, devout Christians to a man, reluctantly abandoned the idea of a young Earth and a global flood, because the theory was contradicted by the evidence. Darwin and his predecessors did the same for the idea of young life and the separate creation of Man. Many have attempted to resuscitate creationism since then, but the evidence just isn't there to support it. Most of modern creationism consists of attacking various branches of science rather than developing any coherent theories, and the few attempts at developing coherent theories have been abject failures (e.g.: Behe and Dembski) that their proponents have not dared to subject to review and criticism by appropriate experts. But the appropriate experts have read what they have published, and pointed out the fundamental and fatal flaws and errors in many places that are fairly easy for an enquiring mind to find.
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Once again, I'm open to change if you show me how they have failed. I urge you to avail yourself of Ned's offer, but here's what you asked for. The idea of a global flood creating any significant portion of the geologic features of the Earth was abandoned by creationist geologists well before Darwin, because it could not be reconciled with the evidence. Many of them went so far as to assert that no global flood happened. Adam Sedgwick was perhaps the greatest proponent of a global flood, yet in 1831 he said (as quoted at Summary on the Flood and A Flood Geologist Recants: Post of the Month: April 2002):
quote: From Hugh Miller -- 19th-century creationist geologist:
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
I'd much rather have you pick your strongest arguments; its the challenge I search, not what I am already familiar with. I want my view put to the test, you see, I want to see if it holds up, if it doesn't, then I'll forfeit it. Then why haven't you responded to my challenge in message 69?
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
you cannot prove that it could not have been miraculous. True. Of course, if you want to take that way out, that destroys the entire concept of "scientific creationism" and leaves no possibilities that your beliefs will ever be taught in U.S. public schools as science, and ends this topic (you could re-start it in one of the forums about religious faith), and leaves us with a "trickster God" or even a "lying God" who has deliberately set up the Universe so every test we can apply tells us that no global flood happened. Very few creationists take that way out.
how do geologists know what the "signs" of a global flood is in the strata, having no prior knowledge of what a global flood would look like in the strata? Well, for one thing, there's no reason to believe that a global flood would have any effects that are qualitatively different from a local flood. E.g., a global flood would leave a global sediment deposit. We don't see that; there's sediments all over the earth, but they are different deposits. Read the Hugh Miller -- 19th-century creationist geologist link. He goes into great detail on how he knew there was no global flood, before Darwin and before radioisotope dating. See Problems with a Global Flood (Second Edition): Producing the Geological Record for a very brief introduction to the many features a global flood should produce that we don't see, and the many features that we do see that are incompatible with a global flood. See Why Geology Shows Sedimentation to Be too Slow for a Global Flood for some detailed treatises on problems by an experienced oil geologist and former young earth creationist. [This message has been edited by JonF, 01-25-2004] [This message has been edited by JonF, 01-25-2004] [This message has been edited by JonF, 01-25-2004]
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
This is assuming that the geological strata actually show set long periods of time. Not an assumption ... a conclusion based on the data, a conclusion regretfully reached by the creationists geologists such as Hugh Miller, man who were desperately trying to believe in a global flood but too honest to deny the evidence. read teh link I supplied.
a common rebuttal of that it the many fossilized trees we see that go through many layers of the strata. Yes, it's a common attempted rebuttal, but it's sadly lacking. Fossils of any kind passing through strata are pretty rare, and those that have been found do not pass thorugh layers of strata that conventional geology claims deposited at separate times or over long perods of time. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/polystrate/trees.html and http://www.talkorigins.org/...lystrate/polystrate_trees.html (in which Andew MacRae discusses some findings on such fossils from 1868).
Moreover, even if you could prove that, a universal flood would be much more destructive and chaotic than a simple local one (I would assume anyway, seeing that there would be a bit more water involved to move and destroy things). Therefore you cannot predict what it would do to the earth or if it would look the same as a small local flood. Why not? Are you actually claiming that such a flood would leave no traces? No sediment layer? No great channels carved across the landscape? No erosion to a degree we see nowhere else? No worldwide set of jumbled fossils of the dead? It's certainly unique, no creationist geologist has ever dared claim such a preposterous idea!
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Replied to in Soracilla defends the Flood?, in a more appropriate forum.
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