Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry
There is no religious fanatic so obnoxious as the doctrinaire PhD crank longing for tenure and relevance.
No it couldn't, because your Mustang doesn't replicate itself, which is one of the three necessary conditions for evolutionary processes to occur. (The other two are heritable variation, and selection.)
Duh. Ridiculing a distorted cartoon-version of an opposing position is known as a "straw man fallacy", because it's equivalent to knocking around a scarecrow dressed up to look like Mike Tyson, then beating your chest about how you've defeated the champ...
That also explains why Hoyle's moronic "tornado in a junkyard" analogy (so beloved by creationists) is bogus as well. It's a completely invalid model of evolutionary processes. Hoyle was famous as an astronomer, but as a biologist he was way out of his field and pretty much a complete idiot (he also believed that insects might be as smart as humans, but just hiding it from us...)
Creationists don't deny that animals are related. What we dispute is how they got there.
Your thread falsely implies that a simple copying error accounts for the change between animals. But what your thread doesn't show is ALL of the differences in genetics between those different animals. It's a lot more than just one change.
The differences are better explained by "Common Design". Humans share 50% of their genes with Bananas. That doesn't mean that humans came from bananas or shared a common ancestor with bananas.
I do believe that eventually my dog will evolve into road kill.
Okay, I now believe that humans and human lice have a common ancestor. Talk about a leap of Faith!
If Pope said that, would that make a difference to you?
Just stating the facts, son.
If that bothers you, then *you're* also invited to tackle the part of my post you're trying to pretend you didn't see:
If you disagree, feel free to provide alternative explanations accounting for ALL the mountains of available evidence which explains *all* of the evidence (not just some small corner of it, *ALL* of it) in a way that a) makes actual sense, and b) somehow explains why all the evidence "just happens" to point strongly towards evolutionary processes if in fact they never actually happened. Go for it.We all await the elucidation which is sure to come from your great intellect and massive knowledge on this subject.
Really, the world of science is just dying for further helpful insights from you on these active research topics. Please review the papers in my post and get back to us with your dissertations on them. Since you take exception to my assessment, then surely something *must* be wrong with all of these findings -- please identify the errors for us. Have your mommy explain the bigger words if you need assistance.
And that goes for the rest of the anti-evolution know-it-alls on these thread as well. Come on, folks, show us what ya got. Since you're such self-proclaimed experts on evolutionary biology, this should be a piece of cake for y'all. Now's your chance, go for it. If evolution is the nonsense you claim it is, feel free to point out what's wrong with each of these papers, and what theory you've got that better explains the results and observations (*ALL* of them, not just one or two isolated observations).
Once you've finished with those, I'll post a few thousand more for you, but hey, that should be no problem for you "experts", you've got it all figured out already, right?
There is no religious fanatic so obnoxious as the doctrinaire PhD crank longing for tenure and relevance.
Are you under the mistaken impression that having nothing more substantive to add this petulant whining is going to help make you appear less of a "religious fanatic", less "obnoxious", or less of a "doctrinaire crank" than those whom you accuse who do actual research and support their positions with evidence?
Because if so, it's not working.
WOW! That maple tree is my cousin a trillion times removed!
No faith involved, just ability to analyze evidence.
When any creationist, AIG, ICR or DI actually provides some evidence for their arguments from personal incredulity, I might take the attacks on science seriously.
Until then, it just makes me sad that so many people in this country believe misinterpretations of the Bible that falsely make them think they are superior spiritually.
Because they have. See post #37. Read the links, as well as the primary literature referenced in the links.
I bet it was a really intersting world when birds just "kinda" flew. They just really didn't have it down yet. Maybe birds just kinda sang. That's it! A hummingbird hums because he hasn't evolved enough to know the words yet!
What makes you think you are better than a maple tree?
Maple trees are pretty. They give us various useful items, including maple syrup and they provide homes for various other living things that you are also related to.
Indeed it is. So did you have some sort of point?
So bristling with anticipation of heresy! So righteous! Righteous me a Grant! Of course the hippo is the missing link, it just makes so much sense.
And anyone who'd dispute that the close ties of all earthly life, found in the genetic programming, means that one species popped out of another is evidence of the reader's refusal to wear shoes in winter...
I think that pretty little artist's rendering (which has the horse in the wrong "swoop" of evolution, btw) ought to be recreated in stained glass and mounted on an altar to Hopeless Tenure Track and Our Lady of Perpetual Unemployability.
All very amusing...
"Humans share 50% of their genes with Bananas. That doesn't mean that humans came from bananas or shared a common ancestor with bananas."
Your keen analysis makes it more likely we are related to bananas.
I did not even imply that I might be better than a maple tree. I am just delighted to have discovered we are related!
(he also believed that insects might be as smart as humans, but just hiding it from us...)
Did he believe that creationists are almost as smart as humans, but just hiding it from us?
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