Biblical Creationism Requires Evolution

Then you don't knoww hat a mutation is. Words have very specific meanings. "Mutation" is one such word.

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mu·ta·tion /myute‘n/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[myoo-tey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. Biology.
a. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome.
b. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
2. the act or process of changing.
3. a change or alteration, as in form or nature.
4. Phonetics. umlaut.
5. Linguistics. (in Celtic languages) syntactically determined morphophonemic phenomena that affect initial sounds of words.

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The Biology definition is the relevant one.When a genetic antibiotic resistance is present in one generation and not in previous generations, for example, a mutation has occurred.Whether you would "call" it a mutation is irrelevant.

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When you know you're going to wake up in three days, dying is not a sacrifice. It's a painful inconvenience.

False. We can directly observe the DNA of the ancestor population and the resistant population. A mutation typically takes the form of something as simple as a "mistake" in copying DNA from parent to child, and can result in a slight modification, duplication, or subtraction in one or more base pairs, which can cause all manner of different features to be expressed (especially when you stack them over mutliple generations).Mutations are very different from already-existing recessive genes that simply arent expressed, which is what you're talking about.Again, it seems you don't understand what a mutation is, or why we know that they exist. We've seen them, with direct observation. You have several mutations yourself, in fact. It's more than a little off-topic, but at the risk of Admin's ire, I'll bite.If you know with absolute certainty that, after being tortured and executed, you will then spend three days in Hell, after which you will come back to life and then ascend directly to Heaven and be worshipped for thousands of years with literally unlimited power...That's not a sacrifice. That's an inconvenience, for which you receive an unlimited reward. Calling a sacrifice demeans any real heroes who have given up their lives, permanently and with no hope of an afterlife or other reward, to save or improve the lives of others.A sacrifice requires that you give something up. When you get it back after three days with interes, it wasn't a sacrifice.If you'd like to debate it further, start a new thread. I don't think we should compeltely derail this one over my signature line.

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When you know you're going to wake up in three days, dying is not a sacrifice. It's a painful inconvenience.

Except we can see and measure the motions of tectonic plates as it happens today. We know exactly at what speed they are moving.Suggesting that they moved at such an incredibly different rate in the past requires a fantastic amount of energy, and an incredible force to slow them down to what is observed today.It's not even that all of moder Geology says that your little idea (and we've heard it here before, I may add) is completely disassociated with the facts. Every other discipline of science agrees, independently, that the Earth is incredibly old, and that no global flood took place. THere is no genetic bottleneck as should be seen in a flood scenario. There is no universal sediment layer. Radiometric dating disagrees with the young Earth. Recorded human history in such ancient cultures as the Aboriginal Australians disagrees with a global flood. Tree rings, like those from the Methuselah tree disagree with the Flood and a young Earth.These ridiculous "ideas" paraded around as "alternative theories" without a shred of evidence for them and a mountain of contradictory evidence staring them in the face work only for those without even the barest grasp of the scientific principles they are challenging. It's the function of a mind desperate to cling to its beliefs in the face of contradictions from observable reality.

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When you know you're going to wake up in three days, dying is not a sacrifice. It's a painful inconvenience.

In two words? Nearly everything. You don't understand evolution. You don't understand even the most basic concepts of genetics. You have literally no idea what teen4christ is talking about.

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When you know you're going to wake up in three days, dying is not a sacrifice. It's a painful inconvenience.