To: Physicist
Even the most strident creationists accept that what they call "microevolution" occurs...This actually represents progress. Back in the 1960s, Herbert W. Armstrong's magazine, The Plain Truth denied that mutations ever occur.
In another 200 years, creationists will have moved on to something else.
286 posted on
04/19/2006 12:34:52 PM PDT by
js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: js1138
Progress, indeed. For some time I've been predicting that the creationists will yield on speciation, but coin some term (e.g. "mesoevolution") to distinguish it from "macroevolution", which they will still decry.
Such is the evolution of the "God of the Gaps".
To: js1138; Physicist
Even the most strident creationists accept that what they call "microevolution" occurs...Actually on these threads we frequently see "arguments" (bald assertions) similar to the following:
- Speciation is impossible
- Speciation has never been observed
- All mutations are harmful
- Any three random mutations kill their host organism
- Beneficial mutations can never fix in the population
Not all the creationists have received the microgood/macrobad songsheet. Curiously many of these arguments come from people who believe in Noah's Ark and cannot see the inconsistency of their position.
308 posted on
04/19/2006 12:57:58 PM PDT by
Thatcherite
(Miraculous explanations are just spasmodic omphalism)
To: js1138
In another 200 years, creationists will have moved on to something else. Nobody ever said moving the goalpost was easy ... Or quick.
329 posted on
04/19/2006 1:21:04 PM PDT by
dread78645
(Evolution. A dying theory since 1859.)
To: js1138
In another 200 years, creationists will have moved on to something else. Courtesy of motorized goal-posts.....
359 posted on
04/19/2006 2:27:55 PM PDT by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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