Posted on 11/09/2004 11:21:22 AM PST by Michael_Michaelangelo
And the existence of God is more believable?
Screw a donkey to a horse and you get a sterile mule. So it is with most cases of extraspecies crosses. Its convienent to say but it doesn't work in real life.
> In effect, you say that anything agrees with you is good.
Sigh. How exactly do you come to that astonishingly incorrect assessment?
> I routinely beg to be pursuaded and get tripe like this.
In other words, you refuse to be persuaded by the facts. i can't help you, then.
Leaving aside the term "God" momentarily, I don't know how one looks at our universe, or simply our own solar system, with all its precision, and can make a compelling argument that everything as we know it happened by random acts of chance.
Do you think that evolution alone provides a more "believable" theory? Please.
There is plenty of evidence to support a role for both evolution and intelligent design. It is the evolutionary purists whose theories are stretched beyond believability.
[What you are about to read is true. Some of the names have been changed to protect the... innocent!?]
Rock: I have no idea what you are talking about and you don't either.
Wall: Then you simply refuse to debate. Are you afraid that you will lose?
Rock: Your question is meaningless.
Wall: This appears to be a non-answer.
Rock: It's vacuous. Without specific hypotheses, it adds nothing.
Wall: You continue to be incoherent.
Rock: It's a dumb question.
Wall: I presume you're confused.
Rock:...Silly question.
Wall: So much confusion - so little time to set it all straight.
Rock: You are fond of unsupported assertions.
Wall: I understand quite well - you have a logic problem you are unwilling to admit.
Rock: I understand that you are semantically challenged, yes. That's easy to figure out. And I understand the various claims like yours, are based on ignorance and unsupported assertions.
Wall: If you wouldn't make blanket statements, you wouldn't look so foolish.
Rock: Replying to your interminable posts with their lack of logic, confusion of points, baseless assertions, and general incoherence is a lot of work.
Wall: What on earth are you trying to say here? Your ramblings are nonsensical.
Rock: This is one long evasion.
Wall: You are most amusing
Rock: A lame response.
Wall: Not a lame response at all.
Rock: Now, perhaps you can try to come up with something in response beyond evasion, rhetorical nonsense, irrelevant digressions, and inappropriate use of math.
Wall: You apparently don't understand the English language.
Rock: Boloney.
Wall: You really have trouble reading, don't you?
Rock: Clueless babble.
Wall: I find you a rather creepy, unpleasant individual; narrow-minded, argumentative, scientifically and mathematically ignorant; with a vicious, non-Christian nature.
Rock: Just idle speculation, incapable of support or experimental confirmation.
Wall: I could go on here. But what would be the point?
Rock: You lost.
Wall: Fer Pete's sake man - don't lie about things like that.
[Hopefully everyone will take this in the spirit with which it was intended.]
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Please tell me how a retroarticular process behind the mandible (more properly referred to as the dentary) is dispositive of archaeopterex's ancestral lineage. You say it. National Geographic says. I spent 5 years studying comparative vertebrate anatomy and I missed that. Please explain it slowly. It is obvious I am a slow learner.
Yea...toronao through junkyard yields 747..evolution.
Old ID news.
It appears that you do not understand evolutionary theory but are just repeating a word you read on some creationists website.
Excuse me, but what is "real biology"? I taught Biology (would have sworn it was 'real biology') for years. I taught evolution/natural selection and creationism side by side both as 'Theories' neither one proveable at this point, but taken as ones own personal choice to believe.
'Evolution explains how life changes, not how it began." Now that's a gimme. The game begins with evolutionist on the 1 foot line. First down, with 20 men on the field. The creationists on defense with 5 players. Thats fair. OK. Penalty. Spontaneous generation of life is your daddy. Explain the old man. Don't tell me you want a gimme of organic molecules, an oxygenated trophosphere, and nutrition substrate to begin with. Have a serious discussion or take your ball and go home. You can't do a bypass surgery if you never went to medical school and cardiothoracic residency.
I asked you if you agreed there could be a bad "pro" evolution article and the only answer you've been able to envision is a Lamarkian "evolution" article. Improve on that answer or count yourself among them with small minds. Your call.
Evolutionary theory does not try to explain the universe nor does the evolutionary theory try to explain the existence of species through random acts of chance.
Creationists (correct me if I am wrong) believe in the free will of man. How is it such a stretch to believe that evolution was left to the 'free will' of chemistry? God may have provided the chemistry and let evolution take its course much as Creationists say we are born and our lives are let to take their course.
Much of forensic is deductive reasoning, but there have been more than one conviction of innocence and acquittal of a guilty man based on that. Do not call it a pure science.
> asked you if you agreed there could be a bad "pro" evolution article and the only answer you've been able to envision is a Lamarkian "evolution" article.
I suppose you want me to list every single possibility for a "bad" article on evolution?
Showcase placemarker.
Evolution was an hypothesis. Over the years it has been supported and modified and generally accepted as a theory except by those that have been taught to believe otherwise based only on a 'faith'.
Could it be that it takes longer than 200 years to produce a new species? We're talking life on a pretty grand scale here, unless we want to claim that the word was created about 6,000 to 9,000 years ago, or whatever Bishop Usher claimed.
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