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Author | Topic: Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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it clearly says that life CANNOT be created from dirt In English there is supposed to be an antecedent for a pronoun. To what does "it" refer? If the Bible, then it's not relevant in a science forum.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
It comes as no surprise all that you can't give me an example. See the logic error there? Of course not. Er ... no; I can't see the logic error here. This must mean you are much smarter than I am. Seems likely. Taq wrote: Nothing he said indicates in any way that he can't give you an example.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
And true.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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What is the difference between Porsche making a 'family' of sports cars and a nested hierarchy? A nested hierarchy is a special and very unusual arrangement of items.
So the difference is that no significant number of vehicles or any man-made objects can be arranged in a nested hierarchy. Many have tried, none have succeeded. Whenever anyone does produce a nested hierarchy of man-made objects it's trivial to produce an example that breaks the nesting. Maybe I can post Michael Denton's allegedly nested hierarchy of vehicles to see if you can figure out where it fails. There's lots of possibilities. Now, the fact that life can be arranged in a nested hierarchy of literally hundreds of millions of items is incredibly unusual in the universe of all possibilities of relationships or lack thereof. It demands explanation. Further, there are two independent ways of producing a nested hierarchy of life and they agree almost exactly.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
In the real world you address all the evidence.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
He knew. He was pissed. But that's no reason for discarding a theory.
Eminent biologist hits back at the creationists who 'hijacked' his theory for their own ends
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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If the first parts of Genesis are allegorical, when does the allegory stop and the literal begin? Ah, there's the rub. You are probably one of those who's scared to death of losing your get-out-of-hell-free card. If you have to decide what's literal and what is not, you might decide wrong, and then it's the fiery pit for you, boyo. So you avoid the problem by deciding everything is literal. Which immediately leads to no end of contradictions and a worldview that has no connection to reality. Step up to the plate, belly up to the bar, and decide. Edited by JonF, : No reason given.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
What kind of "lesson about God" could one get from a mythicized story? Myths are used in many cultures to teach about the society and its values and its relation to the outside world (including whatever God(s) they worship).
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
God arranged to have his Word recorded in written form to preserve its accuracy down through the centuries. That's your fallible interpretation.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Human intelligence is infallible? I didn't know that! Nor does Ringo, because he didn't claim that. He never claimed all errors are corrected and ,of course, if human intelligence were infallible there wouldn't be any errors to correct.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
So... you think God created some species of animal and it thrived for a time and then died out so God created a new species that was very similar to the original species but had some modifications, but that also died out after a number of years, so God tried again... and again... and again... until he finally hit upon a suitable design - and those are our modern species All in a few thousand years. But wait... didn't all those animal exist at the time of the Fludde?
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Except that I read your link and while the quote is an extract from the 5 pages it is representative of what Ruse said, and as such is not quote mining. Eminent biologist hits back at the creationists who 'hijacked' his theory for their own ends Did you read that link? Do you know better than him what he meant?
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
That's your fallible interpretation.
Might be right. Might not be right.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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No, of course not.
You can decide, obviously you have. You cannot prove your decision correct without more evidence. "I've decided" is not enough. "A lot of people have decided" doesn't work either. Edited by JonF, : No reason given.
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
I don't feel any need to try to prove it. It remains a fact that if God inspired the writers the writing has no errors and should be taken as God's own communication. My opinion is irrelevant, as is yours. So your unsupported opinion is a now a fact? You have obviously acknowledged that your opinion is unsupportable and is just as irrelevant to reality as mine. Personally, I doubt God dictated the bible but I don't claim any certainty; because such opinions are unsupportable.
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