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Dredge
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Message 1096 of 1311 (815962)
07-27-2017 2:46 AM
Reply to: Message 1089 by Taq
07-26-2017 11:13 AM


Re: seven "assumptions"
Taq writes:
Dredge writes:
The whole story is, Gould clearly saw the evidence for creation, but as a committed atheist, he tried to explain it away with his stupid PE theory.
This is called "putting words in other peoples' mouths". This is as dishonest as it gets.
Not only was Gould's "science" the result of an atheism-inspired, a priori commitment to evolution, his pathetic PE was just a re-hash of spontaneous generation - superstition, in other words.

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Tanypteryx
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Message 1097 of 1311 (815976)
07-27-2017 10:45 AM
Reply to: Message 1096 by Dredge
07-27-2017 2:46 AM


Re: seven "assumptions"
Not only was Gould's "science" the result of an atheism-inspired, a priori commitment to evolution, his pathetic PE was just a re-hash of spontaneous generation - superstition, in other words.
So you haven't read the Gould and Eldredge paper about Punctuated Equilibrium or any of his books or other papers.
You seem pretty angry about the guy, considering you don't know shit about him.
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What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Message 1098 of 1311 (815977)
07-27-2017 11:11 AM
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07-27-2017 2:32 AM


Re: Insecticide resistance
So when Satan communicated his will to Judas Iscariot, do you imagine he did so in an audible voice that everyone could hear, or was the communication achieved silently? If silently, how does that work?
I dunno, quote the relevant passages and let's look at them.

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Taq
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Message 1099 of 1311 (815988)
07-27-2017 12:33 PM
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07-27-2017 2:46 AM


Re: seven "assumptions"
Dredge writes:
Not only was Gould's "science" the result of an atheism-inspired, a priori commitment to evolution, his pathetic PE was just a re-hash of spontaneous generation - superstition, in other words.
"That's just like, your opinion, man"--The Dude

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ringo
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Message 1100 of 1311 (815989)
07-27-2017 12:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1095 by Dredge
07-27-2017 2:32 AM


Re: Insecticide resistance
Dredge writes:
If silently, how does that work?
Figures of speech are habitually silent.

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Dredge
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Message 1101 of 1311 (816019)
07-28-2017 1:26 AM
Reply to: Message 1080 by Pressie
07-26-2017 7:20 AM


Re: seven "assumptions"
Pressie writes:
Stephen Jay Gould:
"Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationistswhether through design or stupidity, I do not knowas admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
The trouble is, not all paleontologists share Gould's view that "transitional forms ... are abundant between larger groups":
"Darwin predicted that the fossil record should show a reasonably smooth continuum of ancestor-descendant pairs with a satisfactory number of intermediates between major groups ... Such smooth transitions were not found in Darwin's time ... We are now more than a hundred years after Darwin and little has changed ... and the basic situation is not much changed ... We actuallty have fewer examples of smooth tranistions than we had in Darwin's time, because some of the old examples have turned out to be invalid ...
If Darwin were writing today he would still have to cite a disturbing lack of missing links or transitional forms between the major groups of organisms." - David Raup, from an essay in Godfrey's Scientists Confront Creationism.
S. J. Gould: "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology."
This begs the question: Why is it "a trade secret"? Does keeping things "secret" sound like what goes on in honest science?
Niles Eldredge: "We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports [gradual change], all the while really knowing that it does not."
Translation: Evolutionary scientists tell lies. Golly gosh, doesn't that come as a surprise!
S. J. Gould: "We can tell tales of improvement for some groups, but in honest moments we must admit that the history of complex life (ie, the fossil record) is more a story of multifarious variations about a set of basis designs than than a saga of accumulating excellence."
This is the same man who said "transitional forms ... are abundant between larger groups." Make up your mind!
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Dredge
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Message 1102 of 1311 (816020)
07-28-2017 1:33 AM
Reply to: Message 1092 by ringo
07-26-2017 3:12 PM


Re: Interesting question...
ringo writes:
Dredge writes:
God could make the sky and grass any colour he wants to. Science can't explain why he chose blue and green, respectively.
Science can and does explain why the sky IS blue and the grass IS green. You can put any fairy-tale spin on it that you want but that's not as satisfying as knowing.
You've missed my point. Explaining "how" is not explaining "why".

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CRR
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Message 1103 of 1311 (816021)
07-28-2017 1:35 AM
Reply to: Message 1064 by RAZD
07-25-2017 11:15 AM


Re: Self replicating molecule
Artificial molecule evolves in the lab , 08 January 2009 by Ewen Callaway
"Joyce’s team created its own molecule from scratch, called R3C. It performed a single function: stitching two shorter RNA molecules together to create a clone of itself."
In other words they started with 3 carefully constructed RNA strings and achieved ligation of the two short strings in a carefully controlled laboratory environment. Nothing like these 3 RNA strands will appear naturally. There are a lot of problems with obtaining RNA by blind undirected chemistry, but it's amazing what can be achieved by an intelligent designer.
Self-replicating? Sort of. But not one that is likely to occur naturally.

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Dredge
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Message 1104 of 1311 (816022)
07-28-2017 1:38 AM
Reply to: Message 1088 by Taq
07-26-2017 11:11 AM


Re: Interesting question...
Taq writes:
Dredge writes:
Agree. But the existence of nested hierarchies doesn't rule out the existence of a Common Designer. How do know the Creator doesn't have a penchant for nested hierarchies?
How do you know that he does? The burden of proof lies with you to demonstrate that life was created.
I don't know that he does - I'm saying it's entirely possible that he does.
Porsches don't fall into a nested hierarchy.
What is the difference between Porsche making a 'family' of sports cars and a nested hierarchy?

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Dredge
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Message 1105 of 1311 (816023)
07-28-2017 1:52 AM
Reply to: Message 1097 by Tanypteryx
07-27-2017 10:45 AM


Re: seven "assumptions"
Tanypteryx writes:
So you haven't read the Gould and Eldrige paper about Punctuated Equilibrium or any of his books or other papers.
You seem pretty angry about the guy, considering you don't know shit about him.
Angry? Actually Gould and Eldrige (sic*) seem to be more honest than most about what the fossil record reveals.
* The correct spelling is Eldredge (think of El Dredge, which is what my many fans in Mexico call me).
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While Gould admits that the fossil record is characterised by "sudden appearance" and "stasis', is seems that it never occurred to him that this is the exact opposite of what Darwinian theory predicts.
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CRR
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Message 1106 of 1311 (816024)
07-28-2017 2:18 AM
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07-28-2017 1:38 AM


Re: Interesting question...
What is the difference between Porsche making a 'family' of sports cars and a nested hierarchy?
Or what about a nested of heirachy of vehicles in general? Would that prove that one evolved from another? (Beware Berra's Blunder)
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Dredge
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Message 1107 of 1311 (816025)
07-28-2017 2:23 AM
Reply to: Message 1098 by New Cat's Eye
07-27-2017 11:11 AM


Re: Insecticide resistance
NewCatsEye writes:
Dredge writes:
So when Satan communicated his will to Judas Iscariot, do you imagine he did so in an audible voice that everyone could hear, or was the communication achieved silently? If silently, how does that work?
I dunno, quote the relevant passages and let's look at them.
John 13:27: "As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, "What you are about to do, do quickly.""
How did Judas know what to do? Satan told him, of course, but there is no evidence in the Gospel account of anyone else in the room hearing what Satan said to him, except Jesus.
Furthermore, if you study accounts of demonic possession, the demon can only make itself heard in a physical, audible sense through the mouth of the human victim; otherwise it is silent.
Interestingly, there are no accounts in the Bible of a demon ever appearing in the form of a human being (unlike accounts of the "good" angels who do take the form of humans). It seems demons need to possess humans or other creatures in order to manifest themselves in any physical sense.
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Dredge
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Message 1108 of 1311 (816026)
07-28-2017 3:14 AM


I wish to recant my statement that Stephen Jay Gould was an atheist. As far as I can ascertain, he was agnostic.
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Tangle
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Message 1109 of 1311 (816027)
07-28-2017 3:17 AM
Reply to: Message 1108 by Dredge
07-28-2017 3:14 AM


It's more important that you retract your statement that evolution=atheism.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.
"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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Dredge
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Message 1110 of 1311 (816028)
07-28-2017 3:37 AM
Reply to: Message 1109 by Tangle
07-28-2017 3:17 AM


Tangle writes:
It's more important that you retract your statement that evolution=atheism.
It would be more accurate to say evolution = atheist theology.
Michael Ruse, professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada (National Post, May 13, 2000, pp. B1,B3,B7):
"Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religiona full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity."

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