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Author Topic:   New name for evolution, "The Bacteria Diet"
Straggler
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Message 47 of 77 (578744)
09-02-2010 1:28 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Bolder-dash
08-31-2010 2:26 PM


Predicting Transitionals
Bolder writes:
Basically what is says is that the only evidence anyone can ever come up with since the beginning of time, for the supposed random mutations and natural selection of evolution, that they think shows how all of life on the planet, every system, every thought, ever animal trait and behavior, and every complex, interrelated detail of existence, is the changing diets of some bacteria.
What? Have you ever heard of transitional fossils? Are you really going to deny the ability of evolutionary theory to make detailed predictions regarding transitional fossils?
How do you think palaeontologists go about the business of transitional fossil discovery? Do you think they just stick pins in a globe, fly off to random locations around the world and then dig about aimlessly? No. Of course they don't. Palaeontologists have some knowledge of the earlier form of life in the sequence they are studying and some knowledge of the later forms of life. They know the time period where the predicted transitional fossils should exist between these forms of life (if evolutionary theory is indeed correct) and the geological conditions that relate to this time period.
They then determine the areas on the Earth where suitably fossilising rocks from the required time period might be accessible and begin the painstaking process of fossil discovery. In many cases taking years of concerted effort in often hostile conditions (deserts, Polar Regions etc.)
Lo and behold transitional forms have been discovered. Exactly as predicted. Exactly where predicted. Relating to exactly when predicted.
How on Earth are you going to deny that as evidence?

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Straggler
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Message 52 of 77 (578779)
09-02-2010 3:25 PM
Reply to: Message 51 by crashfrog
09-02-2010 3:18 PM


Genes With Pockets?
You want him to show you jeans with pockets?
Oh - Sorry. I misread. My bad.

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