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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
My evidence is the same as your evidence that life on earth evolved from a microbe - the fossil record. Don't blame me for your lack of scientific understanding.
So you agree that it is a sensible progression from colonial bacteria to soft metazoans of the Ediacaran and then to Cambrian fauna? And don't blame me for your complete lack of a mechanism.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
"deadset", actually. I've corrected it.
I stand by my post.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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That is, if UCA was not applicable - those creating medicine would be using some other idea as a guide, or we would not have 'new medicine antibiotic resistance' at all.
Good point. If you don't accept the UCA theory, then you might accept something else like like some form of voodoo. So, UCA is useful in taking the oxygen from invalid and abandoned concepts. Interesting way of looking at it... Edited by edge, : No reason given.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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"Looking for Evidence
Hmmm, grasping at straws, no? (lengthy quote snipped for lack of relevance) - from Giving Up Darwin, by David Gelernter Are you really holding up a guy with degrees in Hebrew literature as an authority on the Cambrian explosion? This is a new low for you, but I suppose it's not unexpected.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
My aliens are as invisible as your macroevolution.
Your aliens are part of a mechanism. The mechanism should be detectable, or at least known by some inference. Edited by edge, : No reason given. Edited by edge, : No reason given.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
"a sensible progression"? Only if aliens performed genetic engineering to get from one stage to the next.
You have not presented evidence for such agents.
You seem to be getting the fossil record confused with your evolution dreaming - the two don't line up.
Actually, I'm confusing you with someone who can draw conclusions about time-domain data.
Where is the evidence of evolution from pre-E bacteria to E-fauna and then to the C-animals? Such evidence exists only in your evo-deluded mind.
It's in the patterns.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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You've missed the point of the discussion: How is accepting UCA theory essential to developing new medicines? Provide an example.
Okay, let's check the title of this thread ... " Any practical use for Universal Common Ancestor?" And, oh wait! It's your own thread ... Troll much lately?
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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I was expecting this - ...
I try not to disppoint.
... apparently someone intelligent enough to be a Professor of Computer Science isn't intelligent enough to study the fossil record.
And apparently plumbers are not qualified to do brain surgery. Life just isn't fair, is it?
If you don't like the message, shoot the messenger.
Actually, I prefer to school the person who commits a major fallacy of reasoning.
Now prove that he's wrong.
Later. It might be kind of fun, but I found the passage to be mind-numbing on the first pass. Just all the usual stuff ...
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
Yeah, right ... yet so many palaeontologists point out that there is very little evidence of evolution in the rocks!
Please support this assertion.
But hey, who cares what paleontologists think?
From my experience, it is only anti-evolutionists who don't.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
All I need to know is that genetic engineering has the potential to reshape the genome such that massive changes in morphology are possible.
Correct. It is all the YOU need to know. And need I add that this bar is not set very high?
Believing that your puny mechanisms of evolutionary can turn a rodent into a whale is grand delusion.
Thank you for your opinion.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
Ever heard of the fossil record?
What are your criteria for determining 'outside tampering'. I mean, as long as you brought it up.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
Curious that you ignore all the evidence that contradicts ToE - where is the evidence for the evolutionary ancestors of trilobites, fish and insects?
The trilobites, fish and insects ARE the evidence and they exhibit a progression of life forms. If you cannot connect the dots, that sounds like a personal problem.
Where are the missing links between the Ediacaran fauna all the novel phyla that appeared during the Cambrian explosion? The evidence for these "ancestors" doesn't exist!
The progression is the evidence that evolution occurred. Edited by edge, : No reason given.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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So many as in what? Two?
Actually, it's four. The number had doubled! So there!
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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Inexplicable gaps and sudden appearances of novel creatures in the fossil record - insects, for example.
But as we have discussed, they are explicable. Certainly more so by natural means than by your aliens which are not supported by any evidence.
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edge Member (Idle past 1733 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
Ah yes, but fossils don't confirm that Darwinian evolution is responsible for that progression.
But that wasn't the question was it? You asked:
Where are the missing links between the Ediacaran fauna all the novel phyla that appeared during the Cambrian explosion?
If you want me to answer a different question, you should ask it. Or was this just a typical YEC evasion?
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