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A Question for Evolutionists
February 3rd, 2002 | Sabertooth

Posted on 02/03/2002 9:07:58 AM PST by Sabertooth

A Question for Evolutionists

Here's where I see the crux of the Creation vs. Evolution debate, and most appear to miss it:

Forget possible transitional forms, stratigraphy, and radiological clocks... at some level, both Creationists and Evolutionists wander back to singularities and have to cope with the issue of spontaneous cause.

Creationists say "God."

  • Since God has chosen not to be heavy-handed, allowing us free will,
    this is neither scientifically provable nor disprovable.
  • This is more a commentary on the material limitations of science than it is about the limitations of God.
    Both Creationists and Evolutionists need to come to grips with that.

Evolutionists say "random spontaneous mutagenic speciation."

  • Where has that been observed or demonstrated?


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To: VadeRetro
Quila member since November 19th, 200

My keyboard is almost gone from tracking all the looney--liberals I have blown away on the FR!

Oh the carnage--waste--shock of it all!

221 posted on 02/04/2002 11:17:36 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: longshadow
Spontaneous life--matter--"intelligence"...I might die from laughing about this one!
222 posted on 02/04/2002 11:19:40 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
Spontaneous life--matter--"intelligence"...

Athlete's foot -- rainbows -- disapearing ink ... One can weap from the joy.

223 posted on 02/04/2002 11:23:34 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: Sabertooth
Evolutionists say "random spontaneous mutagenic speciation."

Where has that been observed or demonstrated?

When human lifetimes span 10,000 years maybe we will get to see directly observable evidence of evolution.

Where has the existence of G-d been observed or demonstrated?.

---max

224 posted on 02/04/2002 11:26:28 AM PST by max61
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To: Quila
New...to me--bumper sticker...

ETERNITY...smoking/non-smoking?

225 posted on 02/04/2002 11:28:38 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: Sabertooth
Bummer. The "Is Human Evolution Over" thread got pulled. You naughty boys and girls.

I wanted to say that human evolution can't be over yet because our brains are still too small.

226 posted on 02/04/2002 11:30:43 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: f.Christian
Can you read--understand this...Quila = ape think--talk/evolution badmouthing God-Truth???

I could "read--understand" you better if you wrote in standard English.

227 posted on 02/04/2002 11:33:53 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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To: RaceBannon
My apologies. Post No. 219 was not intended for you, it was for Sabertooth.
228 posted on 02/04/2002 11:51:16 AM PST by Rudder
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To: Sabertooth
For clarification:

Spontaneous implies no casuation; The two examples that may be useful, e.g., bacterium and immune cells may well be responding to extraneous stimuli, either radiation or foreign material. Their mutigenesis in these circumstances may not be "spontaneous."

Random may not be applicable either. Responding to an environmental stressor may well be a non-random event.

That said, this does not reduce the signifcance of mutagenesis that has the appearance to be both random and spontaneous.

230 posted on 02/04/2002 11:52:44 AM PST by Rudder
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To: Lurking Libertarian
Analyze this...

One-by-one ---- science uncovered the facts. One-by-one, all religions 'evolved' into an unprovable faith-based, invisible god [except the comet a few years back](raven).

"science uncovered the facts"(more raven)...???

Pretty funny...using consciousness(science) to deny its intelligence---originator---designer(me)!

Isn't that like having an eye witness at a bank robbery---the bank robber??

[the food for thought is that religion always keeps a step ahead of a science that chips away at religious assumptions](raven)

159 posted on 2/4/02 3:13 AM Pacific by The Raven(maniac)

Chef looney---what a recipe!

Is this like asking a forgerer--counterfeiter to work at the bank--mint...a grand jury of loons!

PC--evolution madness---the bogus/counterfeit is real-tender and the real is trashed--worthless.

What would a title company say when you show them your crayon scribbles--babbles---laugh you outta there with your Brooklyn bridge thesis/deed!

God created---OWNS science...man invented evolution--DENIAL--spontaneous life...matter too?

Would that be like saying your grandparents never existed---you never saw them---believed them.

All because you say--think so?

Evolution is false anti-science/anti-theism--a hoax!

Religion-ideology-culture-history has nothing to do with it---

yeah in a murder case ask the murderer to supply all the evidence to the prosecuter and void out everything else.

Make it all up...LIES/THEFT-fraud

and get your friends--the blind and the deaf-dumb to judge the case--

"evidence"---real science--objectivity--

whole hearted--headed "honesty" by goons-LIARS!

162 posted on 2/4/02 4:26 AM Pacific by f.Christian

231 posted on 02/04/2002 11:54:21 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
Yes, that makes it all much clearer. :-)
232 posted on 02/04/2002 11:59:31 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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To: Torie
This assumes of course one accepts the view that all species that ever were, were not all there at the "beginning."

Got that a little backwards. "Speciation" is merely a classification which we have chosen to impose to help us sort "like" and successfully procreative organisms a la Linneus. All "species" that could have possibly been, existed in the original Creation. Not all of those "species" exist now, due to their extinctions throughout history (e.g., most dinosaurs).

233 posted on 02/04/2002 12:06:38 PM PST by Agamemnon
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To: Lurking Libertarian
f.Christian has evolved to a higher plane of existence. He can only be undestood by reference to the Bible.
234 posted on 02/04/2002 12:10:46 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
How about common sense...are you mesremized--beguiled by liberalism--evolution?
235 posted on 02/04/2002 12:17:35 PM PST by f.Christian
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To: Rudder, Sabertooth
You may be referring to adaptive evolution, first demonstrated by Cairns with lactose intolerant E. coli bacteria.

For evolutionary processes, "random" does not mean that mutational events all occur with equal probability. Genomic mutational "hotspots" and epigenetic (environmentally) directed events are well described. Arguing against a totally random process is arguing a straw man. It doesn't exist.

236 posted on 02/04/2002 12:20:28 PM PST by Nebullis
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To: eastsider
In what sense was Augustine an evolutionist?

In the sense that God, as the prime mover, first cause, etc. set things in motion, but built in processes for the evolutionary development from that time forward.

237 posted on 02/04/2002 12:25:07 PM PST by Nebullis
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To: Sabertooth
evidence of random spontaneous mutagenic speciation?"

Where is your demonstration that spontaneous mutagenic speciation is needed to esplain evolutionary change?

238 posted on 02/04/2002 12:25:51 PM PST by donh
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To: Agamemnon
I understand one can take the view, as you apparently do, that all species that ever were, were there at the beginning. I think that is ludicrous, but that is just my opinion.
239 posted on 02/04/2002 12:26:46 PM PST by Torie
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To: donh
'splain it to me, lucy.

Sheesh--I should hire a professional speller to follow me around.

240 posted on 02/04/2002 12:27:37 PM PST by donh
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