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Message 241 of 323 (810702)
05-31-2017 9:25 PM
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CRR writes:
The evolutionary god of selection is long dead.
You finally said something we all agree with.

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Message 242 of 323 (810706)
05-31-2017 10:28 PM
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05-31-2017 9:25 PM


CRR writes:
The evolutionary god of selection is long dead.
You finally said something we all agree with.
The irony......it burns like a redhot poker.

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Message 243 of 323 (810708)
05-31-2017 10:41 PM
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Dedge writes:
The evolutionary god of selection is long dead.
What is your alternate explanation for the selection demonstrated by the peppered moth example?
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

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Message 244 of 323 (810714)
06-01-2017 1:33 AM
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05-31-2017 10:41 PM


What is your alternate explanation for the selection demonstrated by the peppered moth example?
Try reading the first line of my post Message 240
quote:
Creationists readily accept that selection happens. Selection by itself produces nothing new but it can produce a change in the frequency in existing traits in the population over time.

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Message 245 of 323 (810715)
06-01-2017 1:38 AM
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Creationists readily accept that selection happens.
This is a bit of overstatement. At least one regularly posting YEC proponent thinks that selection isn't real.

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Message 246 of 323 (810725)
06-01-2017 5:10 AM
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CRR writes:
Try reading the first line of my post Message 240
Then why post this crap?
quote:
The evolutionary god of selection is long dead.
  —CRR
Creationists readily accept that selection happens.
That simply isn't true is it? Why not ask the guy you were replying to.
Selection by itself produces nothing new but it can produce a change in the frequency in existing traits in the population over time.
Equivocation. It can do that, it can also select for beneficial mutations as demonstrated rather beautifully in the peppered moth work. Your fox has been shot.
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

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Message 247 of 323 (810736)
06-01-2017 9:30 AM
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06-01-2017 5:10 AM


Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
Peppered moth Lie, is just a color change and as we know or any geneticist knows or any elementary biologist knows, a color change does not mean there has been evolution changing one species into another.
Evolutionists are so desperate for proofs and all they have is color change, and inbreeding after all these years. They are pathetic to say the least.... and desperate as ever.

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Intelligent design always defeats evolutions lack of design and lack of intelligence. Luck and Chance is not a scientific doctrine,

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Message 248 of 323 (810738)
06-01-2017 10:39 AM
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06-01-2017 9:30 AM


Re: Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
Peppered Moth Overview
Explanation:
quote:
The evolution of the peppered moth is an evolutionary instance of directional colour change in the moth population as a consequence of air pollution during the Industrial Revolution. The frequency of dark-coloured moths increased at that time, an example of industrial melanism. Later, when pollution was reduced, the light-coloured form again predominated. Industrial melanism in the peppered moth was an early experimental test of Charles Darwin's natural selection in action, and remains as a classic example in the teaching of evolution. Sewall Wright described it as "the clearest case in which a conspicuous evolutionary process has actually been observed."
Genetics:
quote:
In 1924, J.B.S. Haldane calculated, using a simple general selection model, the selective advantage necessary for the recorded natural evolution of peppered moths, based on the assumption that in 1848 the frequency of dark-coloured moths was 2%, and by 1895 it was 95%. The dark-coloured, or melanic, form would have had to be 50% more fit than the typical, light-coloured form. Even taking into consideration possible errors in the model, this reasonably excluded the stochastic process of genetic drift, because the changes were too fast.Haldane's statistical analysis of selection for the melanic variant in peppered moths became a well known part of his effort to demonstrate that mathematical models that combined natural selection with Mendelian genetics could explain evolution an effort that played a key role in the foundation of the discipline of population genetics, and the beginnings of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory with genetics.
In peppered moths, the allele for dark-bodied moths is dominant, while the allele for light-bodied moths is recessive, meaning that the typica moths have a phenotype (visible or detectable characteristic) that is only seen in a homozygous genotype (an organism that has two copies of the same allele), and never in a heterozygous one. This helps explain how dramatically quickly the population changed when being selected for dark colouration.
The peppered moth Biston betularia is also a model of parallel evolution in the incidence of melanism in the British form (f. carbonaria) and the American form (f. swettaria) as they are indistinguishable in appearance. Genetic analysis indicates that both phenotypes are inherited as autosomal dominants. Cross hybridizations indicate the phenotypes are produced by isoalleles at a single locus.
Creationist Facepalm : EPIC!

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Message 249 of 323 (810742)
06-01-2017 11:03 AM
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06-01-2017 10:39 AM


Re: Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
Change of color is mere color change just as with the human population where color change or race difference does not produce a different species. Humans whether black or white or peppered is not a proof of evolution.
Come on evolutionists you are embarassing yourselves again..... and agin.
You have only two supposed proofs of evolutionary change, color change and inbreeding.
Both have been shown to be lies and non proofs of desperate evolutionists.
(Remember if you state that humans are different when their color changes, then you in your inconsistencies and falsities prove again that evolution would therefore be a racist doctrine.
No blacks and whites are equal and equally human. Color change is superficial and is not some kind of evolutionary beneficial mutation that makes one human different from other humans.

Evolution is not science. It did not create life nor did it diversify life. It didn;t create the laws that exist nor did it create science. It is a religion and not Science.
Intelligent design always defeats evolutions lack of design and lack of intelligence. Luck and Chance is not a scientific doctrine,

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Message 250 of 323 (810799)
06-01-2017 4:35 PM
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06-01-2017 9:30 AM


Selection happens, it is observed -- time to put this thread is Summary Mode?
Peppered moth Lie, is just a color change and as we know or any geneticist knows or any elementary biologist knows, a color change ...
Means a different phenotype.
... does not mean there has been evolution changing one species into another.
and people educated in evolution know that evolution is not "changing one species into another" but that the process of evolution involves changes in the composition of hereditary traits, and changes to the frequency of their distributions within breeding populations from generation to generation, in response to ecological challenges and opportunities for growth, development, survival and reproductive success in changing or different habitats.
Changes such as the emergence of new color phenotypes, which are then challenged to survive and reproduce.
This is basically a two-step feedback response system that is repeated in each generation:
Like walking on first one foot and then the next.
As such the Peppered Moths are an example of selection based on differences in phenotypes. This of course annihilates your thesis -- as do several other examples posted on this thread -- and it seems your only response is to lie and misrepresent reality.
Evolutionists are so desperate for proofs and all they have is color change, and inbreeding after all these years. They are pathetic to say the least.... and desperate as ever.
Stop lying Davidjay. You have lost this debate too, failing to debunk the "Evolutionary God of 'Selection' " or even make a half-hearted attempt at it.
What is pathetic is someone who loses a debate and cannot admit it nor learn anything from it.
Perhaps it is time to put this thread in summary mode, seeing as you fail to defend your thesis and have nothing to add to it.
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Message 251 of 323 (810802)
06-01-2017 5:33 PM
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06-01-2017 5:10 AM


Creationists readily accept that selection happens.
...
The evolutionary god of selection is long dead.
Tangle, if you think there is a contradiction between the first and last sentences of Message 240 try reading (and understanding) the bit in between.

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Message 252 of 323 (810803)
06-01-2017 5:46 PM
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Re: Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
The peppered moth is an example of equivocation used by evolutionists.
Evolution is true because we have witnessed evolution in the Peppered Moth.
implying that
[All living forms have come from a single common ancestor] is true because we have witnessed [a change in frequency of existing traits in a population over time] in the Peppered Moth.
This equivocation may not be intentional in many cases but the listener is led to believe that one follows from the other. This is a problem with the word having such a wide range of meanings.
Yes the Peppered moth shows evolution in the second sense but not in the first. The responsibility lies with the evolutionists to disambiguate the word "evolution".

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Message 253 of 323 (810805)
06-01-2017 6:16 PM
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Re: Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
CRR writes:
[All living forms have come from a single common ancestor] is true because we have witnessed [a change in frequency of existing traits in a population over time] in the Peppered Moth.
No one but you made such a silly assertion. Just more misrepresentation from Creationists as always.

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Message 254 of 323 (810840)
06-02-2017 3:19 AM
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06-01-2017 5:46 PM


Re: Peppered moths are color change and not evolutionary change
CRR writes:
The peppered moth is an example of equivocation used by evolutionists.
Evolution is true because we have witnessed evolution in the Peppered Moth.
implying that
[All living forms have come from a single common ancestor] is true because we have witnessed [a change in frequency of existing traits in a population over time] in the Peppered Moth.
Why do creationists have to lie like this? It's a very unChristian trait.
Biologists use the peppered moth as a clear example of all the core aspects of evolutionary theory - descent with modification driven by natural selection. Added to which we now have the new knowledge that the modification of the phenotype was caused by a mutation that was beneficial. It's primarily a teaching aid, it's only brought up here because we're dealing with people with childlike misunderstandings of basic biological processes.
This equivocation may not be intentional in many cases but the listener is led to believe that one follows from the other. This is a problem with the word having such a wide range of meanings.
More bullshit. No one but those desiring to be is misled by these terms.
Yes the Peppered moth shows evolution in the second sense but not in the first. The responsibility lies with the evolutionists to disambiguate the word "evolution".
Even more bullshit. The ToE does not say that all life comes from a common ancestor, let alone the case study of the peppered moth. Why keep lying when we've explained this over and over?

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Message 255 of 323 (810920)
06-03-2017 6:10 AM
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Re: Fire flies, cameleons
The old peppered moth observation way back in the fifties or sixties, is an adaption ability of the Lord for these moths.
Its not proof of evolution, not a cornerstone, not some awesome revelation for evolutionists to worship.
Get real, its a selected color change.... by a brilliant God for these moths.
No different than camoflage skins or hair etc on different animals.... spots on snakes etc etc etc.... underbelly colours on fish to hide them from predators below, etc etc etc etc...
For if we want to really discuss animal abilities and gifts of God, consider chameleons, and how they can change their colours...
Did they get magic mutations to give them this ability ? Obviously not. Did a bunch of chemicals get together and select their compositions to mentally connect up with their nervous systems to change their colours.
Did fire flies, get their cold heat and light by accident and just retain them afterwards because fewer predators could see them NO, Did the Lord give them this absolutely amazing ability and light to be seen by us and other fire flies... YES.
Mystery solved, so forget these pepered moths as if they are a great revelation of truth by evolution to the world, in evolution showing its magnificience
Edited by Davidjay, : No reason given.

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