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Taz
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Message 43 of 122 (465932)
05-11-2008 9:04 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by McCartlennstarrison
02-27-2008 4:33 PM


If you walk from New York to San Francisco and you take snapshot pictures of yourself at random locations, will you have a picture to show us that you were half in New York and half in San Francisco?
The point is this is a nonsensical question, just like the question "how come there ain't a fossil that's half human and half gorilla?" Might as well ask why are unicorns hollow?
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I just want to make clear something. There is a difference between being ignorant about something and ask a question that is well-informed in regard to knowledge of one's own ignorance and being ignorant about something and ask a question that is completely off the wall.
For example, say that you have never seen a car before, that you've never even heard of it. Then you see someone driving a car along. You stop the person to ask about the car. Remember that you've never known of its existence before. You ask "how many little horses do you have under there (you're referring to the hood)?" This question tells me that not only have you no idea how a car works at all but that you have taken another step and presume that it works more or less like a horse carriage.
We get nonsensical questions like this all the time here. There are no answers to these nonsensical questions.
I'm not trying to be mean. I just want you to understand these kinds of questions have no real answer to them simply because the questions themselves make no sense. So, don't expect an answer like "there are 50 little horses under my hood..."
Now that I think about it, here is something for you to doodle about. How would you go about explaining to a native tribesman (who has never seen an engine before) the mechanics of a car and how it runs? Think about it for a minute and you will see our pain when we try to explain evolution to people.
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I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't put my head that far up my ass.

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Taz
Member (Idle past 3317 days)
Posts: 5069
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Message 67 of 122 (466241)
05-13-2008 9:13 PM
Reply to: Message 62 by Wumpini
05-13-2008 4:15 PM


Re: What is a fact?
Wumpini writes:
According to this definition, the observed evidence is a fact. What scientists conclude about that evidence is not a fact.
Fact 1: Mutation is inevitable.
Fact 2: Change in allele frequency is inevitable.
Fact 3: Evolution is inevitable.
Definition of evolution: change in allele frequency over time.
Which one of these facts would you like to dispute?

I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't put my head that far up my ass.

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