Posted on 04/13/2005 6:20:23 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Think of a taking a trip to the grocery store with a friend. If you come out with more bags than your friend, that doesn't necessarily mean you bought more groceries. Similarly having more chromosomes (analogous to more bags) doesn't necessarily imply having more genes (analogous to the groceries.) Of course, having said that, having more genes in a genome is also not necessarily required to have more complexity.
If we were created by God, then what possible observation would be different from what we would observe if we are the result of evolution? If both ideas produce identical observable results, the science will assume the simpler one. The ideas boil down to: We see certain observations. We can account for these observations by well understood natural processes or we can account for them by well understood natural processes and, in addition, an omnipotent supernatural being. Simpler, in a scientific sense, means we should not needlessly add entities to a theory. In this case, if we don't need God to account for observations, then a scientific theory should not include God. This doesn't mean that the theory says that God doesn't exist, but rather that God is not needed to explain the phenomenon that the theory tries to explain. I would contend that there is no difference in the observations that would be expected if God really created everything than there are if it's all a result of natural processes. If I am wrong, then please give a specific difference in what would be observed ONLY if God created everything, and not otherwise.
It would help your credibility if you could actually state what evolution really says and not some cartoon version of it. Knocking down strawmen does nothing to help the Creationist's arguments.
I also think that millions of Catholics will find it surprising to find out that the all-knowing authority, freeper Echo Talon, has pronounced that the Pope and any Catholics who believed him when he said that evolution is not incompatible with Catholicism are not really Christians!
What the Pope states is exactly what you deny, namely that it is possible to be a Christian who believes that evolution is a valid scientific theory.
More unused DNA?
Ofcourse you realize this proves me right.
dang I can be a dope sometimes. An hour later I was lying in bad going..... haploid, haploid.... chromosomes.... increased harvest.... big tomatoes..... ahhhhhhh
"Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don’t kid yourself they belong to you
They’re the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
We’ve finished our news
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stay"
"Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don’t you know you’re driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don’t you know you’re driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo superior"
guess I created my own singular.
The point is, that according to creationism there is a wide gap between humans and apes. According to creationism, if I show you a creature, it should be no problem for you to tell me if it's an ape or a human. The point is that CREATIONISTS disagree as to whether these creatures are apes or humans, thus falsifying the idea that there should be no problem distinguishing apes from humans.
The universe-builds-a-bigger-idiot placemarker.
Why thank you! It's always nice to have one's prejudices confirmed.
Don't know about the first, but this situation is not extremely rare in humans. Most mismatches are detrimental, but a few go unnoticed unless a DNA test is done.
Are there heathens here? Where? How do you know?
More code doesn't necessarily make a better program.
Bad spelling drives out the good.
This is the usual answer that comes from basic ID theory. It's no surprise that most folks don't have much use for it.
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