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Are You Too Dumb to Understand Evolution?
CreationEvolutionHeadlines ^ | September 10, 2008

Posted on 09/11/2008 9:55:10 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Sept 10, 2008 — Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible, so he gives them the watered-down version of Darwin’s natural selection instead, which he knows is inadequate to explain the complexity of life. That’s what he seemed to be telling reporter Susan Mazur in an interview for the Scoop (New Zealand). Is the lay public really too dense for the deeper knowledge of how evolution works?...

(Excerpt) Read more at creationsafaris.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2smart2fall4it; atheistagenda; creation; crevo; darwin; evolution; god; intelligentdesign; scientism
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To: Citizen Blade; edpc
"But, point in fact, though we share a common ancestor with the other great apes, that common ancestor is extinct."

We share no ancestor; we share a creator, and he lives.

61 posted on 09/11/2008 10:49:05 AM PDT by editor-surveyor ( If Obama had Palin's resume and experience Obama would be qualified to be VP too.)
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To: MrB
[ Therefore, some races are SUPERIOR to others. ]

Are there many races?.. -OR- are all decended from "Adam and Eve".. meaning theres merely ONE race..

62 posted on 09/11/2008 10:52:39 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Mark319; GodGunsGuts
You arguement is SO weak that this is what you have to resort to:

"Nothing is settled with respect to the theory of evolution but if you expect real scientists to entertain physical impossibilites and stories of magic as legitmate positions from which to debate science, you have no place in such a debate."

63 posted on 09/11/2008 10:53:31 AM PDT by editor-surveyor ( If Obama had Palin's resume and experience Obama would be qualified to be VP too.)
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To: GodGunsGuts; Alamo-Girl; enat; P-Marlowe; betty boop
Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible

Oh, goody.

Spontaneous generation.

We haven't discussed that in a long, long while.

:>)

64 posted on 09/11/2008 10:55:40 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Opposing -> ZerObama: zero executive, military, or international experience)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yes, that’s it, I’m intellectually inferior to this condescending astrobiologist with his copy of Darwin. ...Please! Think about it. The guy is an “astrobiologist.” Whew! I bet he is overwhelmed with evidence of life out there. (Dare we call it faith)? I’ll stick with my faith in God the Creator. If this “scientist” could open up his closed mind, he might find my beliefs reasonable.


65 posted on 09/11/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by pallis
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To: hosepipe

My post does not reflect my views. It was an observation of the logical conclusions of Darwinism.


66 posted on 09/11/2008 10:56:29 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Non-Sequitur; GodGunsGuts

There can be no need for that book; all the Idiots already believe in evolution.


67 posted on 09/11/2008 10:57:27 AM PDT by editor-surveyor ( If Obama had Palin's resume and experience Obama would be qualified to be VP too.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
It's from a paper at his NASA website here.
68 posted on 09/11/2008 10:59:46 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: DouglasKC

The nice thing about dogma is that it frees you from the burden of thought.


69 posted on 09/11/2008 11:04:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

No, I get how it’s supposed to work in principle. It’s just that I look around at humankind as it actually is, all the stupidity and folly it gets up to, and I think “THESE are the fittest? You’re kidding, right?”


70 posted on 09/11/2008 11:07:51 AM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87...Kevin Reilly, Stephen Ward and Brent Woodall, R.I.P.)
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To: editor-surveyor
There can be no need for that book; all the Idiots already believe in evolution.

Obviously not, looking at threads like these. But here's another you might feel more comfortable with

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71 posted on 09/11/2008 11:15:00 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: All

Creation... evolution... I dunno. I wasn’t there to see what happened. Come to think of it, no one else I know was there either. Evolutionists point to old bones and say they prove that evolution is the one true science. Creationists point to the same pile of bones and sy they prove creationism is the one true religion. Then both side cook up “evidence” to prove their theories. In the end both theories are just that... theories, both of which are supported by circumstantial evidence.

Frankly, I think both shoulkd be taught in school, with no preference shown to either.


72 posted on 09/11/2008 11:15:26 AM PDT by oldfart
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To: oldfart
Frankly, I think both shoulkd be taught in school, with no preference shown to either.

And which one of the literally hundreds of creation stories would you teach?

73 posted on 09/11/2008 11:17:45 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: oldfart

Where to start...?

“sy” should be “say”, “both side” should be “both sides” and “shoulkd” was supposed to be “should.”

This is obviously not one of my better days. I think I’ll just go back to bed...


74 posted on 09/11/2008 11:19:57 AM PDT by oldfart
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To: tacticalogic
The nice thing about dogma is that it frees you from the burden of thought.

That's true in a sense. To stop thinking about things that are illogical and not true is truly a blessing and truly freeing.

75 posted on 09/11/2008 11:21:30 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: tacticalogic; DouglasKC
The nice thing about dogma is that it frees you from the burden of thought.

Dogma is dogma regardless of the forum -- spiritual or theoretical. That sword is double edged and applies equally well to the dogma of Evolution.
76 posted on 09/11/2008 11:22:45 AM PDT by so_real ("The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: editor-surveyor
We share no ancestor; we share a creator, and he lives.

Are the two mutually exclusive?

77 posted on 09/11/2008 11:23:22 AM PDT by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

where do you think liberals come from?


78 posted on 09/11/2008 11:29:19 AM PDT by proud okie
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To: GodGunsGuts

“...the field of epigentetics is discovering that mutation is not random...”

does that mean that democrat/socialist/communist/totalitarian/oppressive punks won’t be able to subscribe to the theory that we’re all just animals which were an accident of evolution?

(thanks for the response.)


79 posted on 09/11/2008 11:29:34 AM PDT by ripley
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To: GodGunsGuts
Once again you seem to think “epigenetics” is some magic code word that saves you from evolution and random mutation.

Got a source for your preposterous assertion? If mutations are not random then it should be easy to show that they are not. Strangely enough every experiment on mutation shows that they ARE random.

Do you think God has no control over “random” processes? You think HIS power stops at the casino door? That either something is under the control of God or it is random? Many processes in life and physics are random, this in no way indicates that God in not in control.

80 posted on 09/11/2008 11:41:19 AM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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