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Author Topic:   Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
JonF
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Message 43 of 1311 (807473)
05-03-2017 10:01 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by Dredge
05-03-2017 3:04 AM


Yes, sorry; your defintion of evolution is heritable change in a population. So what's this got to do Darwin? Heritable changes in a population has been a known fact for thousands of years.
Yep. Millennia, even.
Darwin proposed a theory of how it happened.
A distinction which you appear to be unable to comprehend.

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Message 44 of 1311 (807474)
05-03-2017 10:05 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by Dredge
05-03-2017 3:27 AM


People were clearly already well aware of the mechanism of natural/artificial selection and its effect on a popularion, so what did Darwin come up with that advanced knowledge of "evolution" (ie, heritable changes on a population)?
They were not already well aware that the process, when continued for long periods of time, resulted in wildly different species.
Darwin figured it out and called his book "Origin of Species". It was about how different species originated; i.e. how they came to be different species..
Edited by Admin, : Fix use of bold dBCode.

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Message 246 of 1311 (809344)
05-17-2017 9:25 PM
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05-17-2017 7:40 PM


He said the respective observations can just as easily be used as arguments for Intelligent Design!
Easily said. Much more difficult to demonstrate. Let's see the arguments for ID based on that evidence.

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Message 325 of 1311 (810001)
05-22-2017 7:45 PM
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05-22-2017 6:45 PM


Re: Re: Useful applications of evolutionary theory and processes
Not what he asked for. Homologs are not required for mutations to accumulate.

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Message 469 of 1311 (811556)
06-09-2017 8:20 AM
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06-09-2017 3:41 AM


Re: Junk
Except that since ENCODE it has been clear that there is little junk DNA.
Their definition of "function" differs greatly from the common one in biology and even they have admitted that they way overstated their case. Transcription does not equate to any meaningful definition of biological function.
On the Meaning of the Word "Function"

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Message 486 of 1311 (811954)
06-13-2017 5:38 PM
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06-13-2017 5:08 AM


Re: maybe we should cholera a new vaccine ...
Talkorigins is chock full of evidence disproving your fantasy so you go with the ad hominem fallacy. Obviously that's all you got.

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Message 555 of 1311 (812922)
06-21-2017 8:19 AM
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06-20-2017 9:31 PM


Re: maybe we should cholera a new vaccine ...
I didn't say Talk Origins is an atheist web site
quote:
I wouldn't worry about anything from that discredited atheist web site.
Your claims are recorded. Don't lie about them.

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JonF
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Message 631 of 1311 (813515)
06-28-2017 9:22 AM
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06-28-2017 8:19 AM


Re: define "species"
Well that's alright then, so long as you don't tie macroevolution to speciation, since if you can't identify if it's a new species you can't say macroevolution has taken place.
What is it with creationists and all/some/none?
The fact that in some cases we cannot identify a species as new does not mean, as you assumed, that we cannot identify species as new in all cases.
Logic fail.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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Message 647 of 1311 (813612)
06-29-2017 9:06 AM
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06-28-2017 5:18 PM


Re: define "species"
What is it with creationists and all/some/none?
The fact that in some cases we cannot identify a species as new does not mean, as you assumed, that we cannot identify species as new in all cases.
Logic fail.
I think that is a logic fail. Just what are you trying to say there?
Er, I tried to say what I said, in simple unambiguous English.
You wrote:
Don't. Or can't. Normally both. It doesn't matter, as Darwin - bless him said - 'we know them when we see them.' The vast majority are not contentious - elephants and daphnia are different species.
Well that's alright then, so long as you don't tie macroevolution to speciation, since if you can't identify if it's a new species you can't say macroevolution has taken place.
  • Tangle's "Darwin - bless him said - 'we know them when we see them.'" is mocking your "we know them when we see them" referring to kinds.
  • Several people have pointed out that in some cases new species are difficult to identify, but in most cases identifying a new species is easy.
  • Therefore we can tie speciation to macroevolution because in almost all cases we can identify when speciation has taken place.
  • You took "some cases" to mean "all cases" in typical creationist fashion and said we can't tie speciation to macroevolution (obviously meaning in all cases, otherwise you would have inserted a caveat).
  • I pointed out that taking "some cases" to mean "all cases" is a logic failure.
  • Duh.

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Message 648 of 1311 (813613)
06-29-2017 9:10 AM
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06-29-2017 4:23 AM


Re: Kinds
What is a kind and how do we find them?
You left out the critical part specifying "how do we find them".
What science needs is an operational definition. Simply put, given two arbitrarily chosen species A and B, what procedure do we follow to tell if they are the same kind or different?
Referring to information that is both practically and theoretically unavailable may not be part of the definition. E.g. some "original" genetic makeup.

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Message 666 of 1311 (814085)
07-04-2017 9:29 AM
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07-04-2017 8:25 AM


Re: definitions
And as for 'kinds', you can't even tell me whether Tapirs and Anteaters are of the elephant 'kind' or not and how the decision would be made. Why is that?
That information was in the linked article. Read it.
I've seen and read that article before.
No operational definition of "kind" there.

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JonF
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Message 673 of 1311 (814234)
07-05-2017 8:07 AM
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07-04-2017 10:40 PM


Re: definitions
But I have previously given my definition in Message 644
No operational definition of "kind" there.

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Message 686 of 1311 (814313)
07-06-2017 8:37 AM
Reply to: Message 678 by Dredge
07-06-2017 4:56 AM


Re: define "species"
Biologists regularly cite antibiotic resistance as an example of evolution. Antibiotic resistance is nothing more than natural selection.
Nope.

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Message 697 of 1311 (814341)
07-07-2017 9:06 AM
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07-07-2017 12:16 AM


Re: Things Louis Bouroune
The main objection to using this would be that it is now 60 years old.
Nope.
quote:
The problem [of the origin of the quotation] apparently stems from the confusion in the discourse of these three scientists between the fact of evolution and the explanation of this fact. None were creationists but they all felt that the explanations given for the understanding of evolution were insufficient, even totally inexact.

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Message 698 of 1311 (814342)
07-07-2017 9:23 AM
Reply to: Message 696 by RAZD
07-07-2017 6:33 AM


Re: information vs source
... to the creationist the source, the authority, is more important than the validity of the information, while for the scientific thinking people the validity of the information is more important than the source.
Well put.

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