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One Scientist Does No Believe in Evolution:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7136269/All-humans-are-aliens-from-outer-space-scientist-claims.html ^

Posted on 06/10/2014 6:41:20 PM PDT by Vinylly

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7136269/All-humans-are-aliens-from-outer-space-scientist-claims.html

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; anothercreationstory; antitheism; creationism; scientology
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To: Ben Ficklin

That’ll be the fallback when complexity makes ye olde primordial soup untenable. An alien intelligence sufficiently advanced to have launched such a scheme would be indistinguishable from a god. But, I suspect we won’t be hearing the argument that “aliens did it” will halt all scientific inquiry and should therefore be rejected out of hand, for some odd reason.


21 posted on 06/10/2014 8:23:17 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That life came from space? Yes, but not in the form of microbes, in the form of Xenu flying DC8’s filled with billion of captive souls of the Galactic Confederacy. That should be obvious to anyone taking enough drugs and alcohol.


22 posted on 06/10/2014 8:44:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Evolution (in particular genetic coding) also fails to explain how the body plan is formed. Simply producing proteins is insufficient.

Another of the many problems with evolution is the part about transition from one species to another. It’s never been observed. And if you have an intuition for probability, you might see that for evolution to be true there would have to be a whole lot more transitional species—not just fossils of transitional species, but currently existing transitional species.


23 posted on 06/10/2014 8:48:51 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: TexasGator

I meant to say random chance, actually. But endowed in the sense that random mutations which promote survival allow for greater proliferation. In that sense, there is nothing to explain how humans have advanced abilities which have nothing to do with mere survival.


24 posted on 06/10/2014 8:49:29 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

This explanation seems to ignore the likelihood that God spoke life into existence.

As in speaking some sort of language.

(Fascinating, how the genetic code is a form of language.)


25 posted on 06/10/2014 8:54:05 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Like you say, speciation is one of the key points of contention with evolution, because it’s never been directly observed. That, however, is probably due to the extreme time span which is required for it to happen. Simpler adaption is not in dispute. But speciation is just adaption over a much longer timeframe. When two members of the same species adapt differently under separate environments to the point where they can no longer breed with one another, speciation occurs.


26 posted on 06/10/2014 8:55:57 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: reasonisfaith
All of the cosmology to date cannot get us from nothing to something.

The "something" that got us from nothing to a massive universe is the Word of God.

The Word of God gave us the Big Bang. The laws of physics that unfolded from that Big Bang could have led to an early "warm" period in the universe that was essential in the development of precursors to life that were eventually deposited on Earth.

27 posted on 06/10/2014 9:04:46 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Vinylly

10’s of thousands of scientists don’t believe in evolution. Will anyone hear about it - no.


28 posted on 06/10/2014 10:19:10 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
The article doesn’t say that he doesn’t believe in evolution, it says he believes life began in space. Evolution isn’t mentioned.

Microbes from outer space led to human life implies evolution between the two. Humans just didn't fall out of the sky already fully developed.

29 posted on 06/10/2014 10:35:23 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: reasonisfaith
Evolution (in particular genetic coding) also fails to explain how the body plan is formed. Simply producing proteins is insufficient.

No, you also have to produce fats and sugars.

If you want to know how the body plan is formed, look up embryonic development. First, the fertilized ovum grows. Then, at about 3 weeks, all of the organs start to form and all exist by 5 weeks, along with the limbs. This is all a result of cells producing and responding to chemical signals. After 5 weeks, the body grows and becomes more detailed.

Another of the many problems with evolution is the part about transition from one species to another. It’s never been observed. And if you have an intuition for probability, you might see that for evolution to be true there would have to be a whole lot more transitional species—not just fossils of transitional species, but currently existing transitional species.

There are transitional species all around you. Considering that evolution is a continuous process, then, by definition, all species are transitional. Also, there exist living organisms at every "stage" of evolution--from simple colonies of identical but communal cells, through every level of complexity until you get to what we usually think of as the most complex organisms.

If you have ever noticed that children do not look exactly like their parents or each other, you have noticed a consequence of evolutionary forces at work.

30 posted on 06/11/2014 3:51:36 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
When two members of the same species adapt differently under separate environments to the point where they can no longer breed with one another, speciation occurs.

Evolution takes place at the population level, not the individual level. Random genetic changes always happen, and over time, some of them become distributed throughout the population. But if a population is split into two populations of the same species (usually through a geological event), then the accumulation of random genetic changes is different in each population. Over time, those changes cause the two populations to be different and eventually to be reproductively incompatible, at which point they are considered two species.

31 posted on 06/11/2014 4:04:15 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Yes, you have it. Groups of the same species, somehow separated, and the common gene pool is split in two. Then they go completely separate ways.


32 posted on 06/11/2014 4:42:49 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: 21twelve

Crick was on LSD when he “discovered” the DNA helix.


33 posted on 06/11/2014 5:02:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

-— That doesn’t explain how we are able to understand advanced mathematics, build computers, and go to the moon, however. That ability given to us just by chance seems very unlikely. -—

The effect can’t be greater than the cause, or stated another way, the greater can’t come from the lesser. So if evolution happened, it would have to have been caused through a greater cause, I.e., God.

But evolutionary theory has scientific problems. The fossil evidence contradicts microevolution because it displays stasis in species. Species exit the fossil record in the same form that they appeared. The fossil evidence is overwhelming.

And as far as macro evolution is concerned, no one has proposed a remotely plausible mechanism.


34 posted on 06/11/2014 5:14:12 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Vinylly
And the good LORD is watching over all of us.


35 posted on 06/11/2014 5:30:02 AM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Maybe we can decompile very tiny pieces of it at a time, but then we can’t be sure if something in it depends on a completely different part of the code.”

Sounds like ObamaCare :)


36 posted on 06/11/2014 5:50:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: muir_redwoods
I’m not saying it was aliens...

I'm not saying it was God...
But it was God.

37 posted on 06/11/2014 7:30:21 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: reasonisfaith
...not just fossils of transitional species, but currently existing transitional species.

We ourselves could well be transitional species. We may be transiting from corporeal to spiritual beings. God can do anything.

38 posted on 06/11/2014 7:34:56 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Ben Ficklin
NASA has an interview with an astronaut who said UFO'a are so common in space when they see one they don't think about it much anymore and when they report it, the government keeps quiet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLN_Jcg1pc
39 posted on 06/11/2014 9:56:20 AM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
......... Yes, but not in the form of microbes, in the form of Xenu flying DC8’s filled with billion of captive souls\

Finally, someone to whom I can explain my vote for Mitt Romney!

You see, Mormons (and Scientologists) believe that eventually man can become god on another planet. On the off chance that this might be true, I figured that Earth was quite possibly Romney's planet.

One doesn't want to vote against that, does one?

40 posted on 06/11/2014 10:35:04 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( A disbarred gay Muslim lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
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