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Author Topic:   What i can't understand about evolution....
Agobot
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Message 200 of 493 (492873)
01-03-2009 2:40 PM
Reply to: Message 191 by cavediver
01-03-2009 4:48 AM


Re: Start conducting an honest discussion, Seeking
cavediver writes:
Only if that someone or something is an idiot or severely limited in its creative abilities. Why else would that someone/thing give the octopus a fantastic eye, yet the rest of us tetrapods this ridiculous back-to-front eye with a blind spot? Why have I, a bipedal man, the same bone structure as my quadrpedal relatives? Was I designed to get severe back-ache? What idiot thought it would be a good idea to use the same opening for respiration and ingestion of food, leading to death by choking? And why are my genitalia in such an exposed position? As a quadruped, they're nicely protected, but as soon as I stand upright, they're there for all to attack. Talking of genitalia, why is my body's sewage system integrated with my love-making apparatus either your someone/thing really hates us, or it's a complete fool.
Interestingly, the reasons for all of these issues become astonishingly clear when we consider evolution...
This makes perfect sense but if only human beings of all species were perfect beings, with perfectly designed and constructed bodies, who would believe in the theory of evolution? Short answer - no one. How would the world function? It wouldn't be anything close to what it's now. People would be discouraged to pursue science in a world that's ruled by an entity. Try teaching Evolution to children in Palestine and Iran, you can't. They are brainwashed and will laugh at the thesises of the TOE. I imagine something like that would have happened if we, of all species, were physically perfect. The world would be a terrible place, run by religion, governed by fundamentalists like the Taliban where our society would be something close to that of Afghanistan. In terms of development, I'd say we would still be in the Dark Ages, if not right in the Stone Age. People would disobey anyone and everyone on the premise that god says so. How would you enforce laws in such a "society"? How would you control people?
Realistically, our development rests heavily on the abolishment of the idea of god.
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Agobot
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Message 232 of 493 (493025)
01-05-2009 8:18 AM
Reply to: Message 226 by seekingfirstthekingdom
01-05-2009 5:04 AM


Re: Start conducting an honest discussion, Seeking
I can't understand this ridiculous perseverance to prove Evolution theory wrong. In spite of all the evidence - viruses and bacteria mutations(HIV,flu,etc...), wolves turning to dogs, chickens losing the ability to fly, tons of fossils, etc, etc...
Swallow it, if there is a god, it wants to fool us that we are alone out there(although modern physics forces us to re-think our notions of space, time and the notion of "out there"). If god wants us to believe in the TOE, there is nothing we can do. If god set up everything so that it would look like we came to be what we are through completely random mutations, you stand zero chance against god's plans. We can only hope that the reasoning we call logic is not limited or outright wrong outside the scope of our collective experience.

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Agobot
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Message 492 of 493 (495458)
01-22-2009 7:37 PM
Reply to: Message 483 by Granny Magda
01-18-2009 3:13 PM


Re: Evolution and Abiogenesis
Granny Magda writes:
Abiogenesis still provides a little gap for the Gap God to live in. Fortunately it's a doomed tactic, since science is quickly closing in on this particular gap...
This approach is called propaganda. Communism used to employ such tactics, declaring the fall of capitalism was imminent. Of course everybody laughed.

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