Evolution Logic

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What you're describing is the way Dembski and Gitt define information.... They confuse information with knowledge and meaning.

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And aren't they intelligent and educated enough to realize this? Especially after it has been pointed out to them?

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken (quoted on Panda's Thumb)

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It would be in the Cambrian I believe.

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Before that, even. If I recall correctly, the molecular evidence suggests that at least some of the major phyla diverged about half a billion years before the Cambrian.

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken (quoted on Panda's Thumb)

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Wrong again. We are talking about a science not a "popular belief" -- science based on factual evidence.

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Another error (although unrelated to your point -- sorry for the digression) is that evolution -- common descent, actually -- says that there is a single common ancestor for all life. Actually, the theory of evolution merely asserts that the species in a given major taxon has a common ancestor -- but all known life may have had several ancestors.The idea that there is only a single common ancestory is based on empirical observation, but is not necessary to the theory of evolution.

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken (quoted on Panda's Thumb)

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I disagree... We're devolving!

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I don't know about you, but I made a lot of progess since the days I was a simple single cell travelling down my mama's Fallopian tube.

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken (quoted on Panda's Thumb)

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Like in the lowest layer, there are fully developed sponges, trilobites, jellyfish, worms, and other organisms, and this is the bottom of the geologic column!

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Actually, it's not. The fossil record extends farther into the past into the Precambrian. And molecular biology shows evidence that the origins of the major phyla may extend even farther into the past.

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H. L. Mencken (quoted on Panda's Thumb)