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Evolution debate persists because it's not science
The Sun News ^ | February 23, 2009 | By Raymond H. Kocot

Posted on 02/22/2009 10:58:04 PM PST by GodGunsGuts

Opinion

Monday, Feb. 23, 2009

Evolution debate persists because it's not science

By Raymond H. Kocot

...

But did you ever wonder why Darwinism's general theory of evolution, sometimes called macroevolution, has been debated for over 150 years without resolution? The surprising answer is Darwin's macroevolution theory is not a legitimate science. The National Academy of Sciences clearly defined science in its 1998 guidebook for science teachers. The definition begins with [stating that] science is a particular way of knowing about the world, and ends with, "Anything that can be observed or measured is amenable to scientific investigation. Explanations that cannot be based on empirical evidence are not part of science." In other words, a legitimate scientific theory (a hypothesis or idea) must be observable in real time and must be testable, yielding reproducible results. That is the core of the scientific method that has brought man out of the Dark Ages.

Because confirmable observations and generating experimental data are impossible for unique events like life's origin and macroevolution theory, world-famous evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr prompts evolutionists to construct historical narratives to try to explain evolutionary events or processes. In other words, stories are all evolutionists can muster to support macroevolution theory. If macroevolution theory, which must rest on faith in a story and is considered to be scientific, why not the creation story. With that in mind, it is no wonder the molecules-to-man debate has persisted for 150 years...

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To: ColdWater

Little child playing childish games, how cute!


141 posted on 02/23/2009 9:34:25 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor
A photon is not matter, and is absorbed if it encounters matter. It can continue to propagate only as long as it contacts nothing.

Wrong. It can propagate after is 'contacts' mass. That is why we can see objects!

142 posted on 02/23/2009 9:34:29 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

Wrong!!!!

The photons we see didn’t contact any matter; they were repelled by other photons.


143 posted on 02/23/2009 9:36:11 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor
The obvious problem with your stupid idea is that it is the rest of the universe, not Earth that is accelerated away from us.

Oh, I forgot. The earth is fixed in place and the sun revolves around the earth.

144 posted on 02/23/2009 9:36:35 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: editor-surveyor
The photons we see didn’t contact any matter; they were repelled by other photons.

Please reference that hypothesis. Better you should research this and gain a little knowledge.

145 posted on 02/23/2009 9:37:50 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

Tis you that need to gain the knowledge. Clue: study “color”


146 posted on 02/23/2009 9:39:04 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor
Tis you that need to gain the knowledge. Clue: study “color”

Can't back up your false science, again.

147 posted on 02/23/2009 9:42:09 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: editor-surveyor
The photons we see didn’t contact any matter; they were repelled by other photons.

Let me see if I have this straight. There are lots of photons running around in matter and they never get out. Along comes a photon headed for this mass but bounces away because it was repelled by some photon inside of the matter?

What keeps all those photons inside the matter?

148 posted on 02/23/2009 9:49:09 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

You worship the strawman!


149 posted on 02/23/2009 9:50:01 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor
The photons we see didn’t contact any matter; they were repelled by other photons.

But we can see that repelled photon because the matter in our eyes does not have any photons with which to repell that photon?

150 posted on 02/23/2009 9:50:53 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: editor-surveyor

I see that you cannot backup your hypothesis. Thanks.


151 posted on 02/23/2009 9:51:57 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: Caramelgal; metmom

==The day the GOP adopts YEC as part of its platform

Who said anything about the GOP adopting a YEC platform? What they should adopt is a platform that calls for free market competition between creation, evolution, and intelligent design in which they are forced to stand on their own two feet, with no government support whatsoever. But the Evos won’t have that because they know that if the unconstitutional establishment of religion support of the government and the courts ever got knocked out from underneath the Temple of Darwinistic Materialism it would instantly collapse like a house of cards. But no matter, not even the government or the courts can save the HMS Beagle. It was doomed to break up on the rocks of scientific falsification the moment it set sail against God’s creation.


152 posted on 02/23/2009 9:53:03 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: editor-surveyor

[YOU] The photons we see didn’t contact any matter; they were repelled by other photons.

[ME] What keeps all those photons inside the matter?

[YOU] You worship the strawman!

I guess we have passed the limits of your ability to explain your physical hypotheses.


153 posted on 02/23/2009 9:53:49 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: DoctorMichael

“There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the “general theory of evolution,” and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.”
(Dr. G. A. Kerkut evolutionist)

“It’s impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.” (Dr. Richard Goldschmt, evolutionist. Founder of the “Hopeful Monster” theory.)

“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.” (Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229)

“You suck!” (Cedric, smartest person who ever lived)

“We should reject, as a matter of principle the substitution of intelligent design for the dialogue of chance and necessity; but we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical system, only a variety of wishful speculations.” (Biochemist, Franklin M. Harold “The Way of the Cell,”)

“Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.” (Professor Phillip E. Johnson)

“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” (Dr. Francis Crick, biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature)

“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.” (Dr. A.E Wilder Smith, chemist and former evolutionist)

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.” (Dr. Edwin Conklin, evolutionist and professor of biology at Princeton University.)

“Hypothesis [evolution] based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts....These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest.” (Sir Ernst Chan, Nobel Prize winner)

“The probability of a single protein molecule being arranged by chance is, 1 in 10-161 power, using all the atoms on earth and allowing all the time since the world began...for a minimum set of required 239 protein molecules for the smallest theoretical life, the probability is, 1 in 10-119,879 power. It would take, 10-119,879 power, years on average to get a set of such proteins. That is 10-119,831 times the assumed age of the earth and is a figure with 119,831 zeros.” (Dr. James Coppege from, “The Farce of Evolution” page 71)

“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 nought’s after it...It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of Evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” (Sir Fred Hoyle, highly respected British astronomer and mathematician)

“The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.” (Dr. Emile Borel, who discovered the laws of probability)


154 posted on 02/23/2009 9:54:22 AM PST by Cedric
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To: ColdWater

If you call that scientific, then you must call the ideological assumptions built-in to the Big Bang unscientific.


155 posted on 02/23/2009 9:55:06 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: ColdWater

“What keeps all those photons (that no longer exist) inside the matter?

Pathetic!


156 posted on 02/23/2009 10:00:18 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: GodGunsGuts
If you call that scientific ...

Uh I didn't. That was the 'scientific proof' from you link.

157 posted on 02/23/2009 10:00:26 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: editor-surveyor
“What keeps all those photons (that no longer exist) inside the matter?

Pathetic!

Pathetic is your altering my post and still not responding to my query.

158 posted on 02/23/2009 10:02:43 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: editor-surveyor

If the photon’s ‘no longer exist’ that means that once light is reflected there are no more photons to repell the light photons and thus we will not be able to see the matter? Does that mean that I am invisible?


159 posted on 02/23/2009 10:04:28 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

Trying to have a conversation with people who think they are smarter than working physicists is more like necrophilia than social intercourse.


160 posted on 02/23/2009 10:05:25 AM PST by js1138
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