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Author Topic:   What i can't understand about evolution....
lyx2no
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Message 353 of 493 (493788)
01-10-2009 7:19 PM
Reply to: Message 330 by Peg
01-10-2009 6:16 AM


Imagine You're in Error
imagine the a 50 story building.
This would be an analogy that can only be derived by terribly wrong understanding of evolution. Instead of having all of us understanding what your misconceptions are why don't you work on relieving yourself of them. Let go of whatever beliefs you have and start afresh.
Where Annefan's modification of the analogy is a great improvement upon yours, I prefer thinking of the science of evolution (and any other science as well) as a jigsaw puzzle. We can work on little bits of it at a time. Each bit we complete gives us a better understanding of the whole. Sometimes we'll have an English cottage over here and Gozzilla over there and won't understand how they go together. There will be all kinds of arguments as to who is in errror. But the next thing you know enough of the puzzle is done to see that the Godzilla bit is an advert for a movie. Everything is concordat once again and the Godzilla boys n' girls get a Nobel prize.
Edited by lyx2no, : PC

Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

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lyx2no
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Message 419 of 493 (494388)
01-15-2009 5:21 PM
Reply to: Message 401 by Peg
01-15-2009 8:32 AM


Just Piling On
There are certain evidences that Colonel Mustard committed murder with a lead pipe in the conservatory. It is unknown whether the Colonel was the product of natural or artificial insemination. Are we therefore to conclude that, without regard to the certain evidences, the Colonel is to go free?
Accept the point that origin has nothing to do with evolution and stop applying it to you argument against evolution or explain why it must be taken into account. You've been repeating the same course in twenty word posts for the better half of this thread. maybe if you tried to condense you thoughts into a single four hundred word post you'd recognize that the bits don't fit together.
A bit of my family lore: I've an aunt whom made these two statements within five minutes of each other:
quote:
The world is 1982 years old. (Can you guess when she said this?)
And:
quote:
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
Hours passed before anyone could get her to understand the contradiction in these two statements but it was eventually done. The argument then turned to the error of the first statement. That too was resolved. But to this day, without updating either statement to reflect the passage of time ” 65,000,027 years ago ” she still insisted that both statements are true for the first few minutes of the argument.
You're doing the same thing, though admittedly less blatantly.

Genesis 2
17 But of the ponderosa pine, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt sorely learn of thy nakedness.
18 And we all live happily ever after.

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