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To: BroJoeK
Sorry, FRiend, "broken rocks" must be anti-evo jargon than I've not been clued-in on. And what such rocks might have to do with your "intellectual integrity" I can't even begin to imagine.

I'm referring to an analogy I made previously on this thread.

Pointing to broken rocks at the foot of a hillside to explain the rise of the Pyramids...as if demonstrating how rocks that are broken by a completely random naturalistic mechanism can explain the Pyramids by the same mechanism.

224 posted on 06/15/2012 5:54:42 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger
papertyger: "Pointing to broken rocks at the foot of a hillside to explain the rise of the Pyramids...as if demonstrating how rocks that are broken by a completely random naturalistic mechanism can explain the Pyramids by the same mechanism."

Your "broken rocks" by themselves are a false analogy, since they necessarily correspond to only half of evolution theory -- "descent with modifications".
To make the analogy more accurate, you'd have to "posit" a "natural selector", who picks through your pile of "broken rocks" and finds those suitable as building material.

Of course, in the analogy of pyramid building, that "natural selector" would have to be an "intelligent designer" of pyramids.
But since we can't physically see the "selector" at work, and since by definition of the word "science" it can only deal with natural events, science calls the breaking of "rocks" suitable for construction "random" and the movement of suitable "rocks" from pile-to-pyramid as "natural" selection.

I don't personally care what science calls it, anyone with eyes to see can readily detect the Hand of God at work in both "descent with modifications" and "natural selection" = evolution.

228 posted on 06/15/2012 6:49:23 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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