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The Odds of Evolution Are Zero
Townhall.com ^ | JUne 15. 2017 | Jerry Newcombe

Posted on 06/15/2017 12:50:19 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: ichabod1

Hehehehe, we ‘share’ DNA. You should really look into what that actually means - and the follow up studies to how much we actually ‘share’. Also to note, they found out junk DNA isn’t junk either.

Besides, why wouldn’t the same inventor use a similar recipe when it ‘was good’? ;)

(Hint: We just share protein-coding regions of high similarity with Chimps.... regions, not entire areas)


41 posted on 06/15/2017 1:36:54 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: mangonc2

Check out “Darwin’s Doubt” and “Signature in the Cell” by Myers. He addresses all your objections. I, like you, more or less bought into the macro evolutionists arguments until I read his books.

There may be some minor evolution at the micro level, but not at the macro.


42 posted on 06/15/2017 1:37:14 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: butlerweave

so they’re going with Aliens created life on Earth


I used to hear this one, a lot. The counter argument is “Fine, where did the alien come from?”

I find the easiest way to end arguments over the existence of a higher power (of which evolution is a subtopic) is to simply remove life, species, etc from the equation.

Where did carbon come from? Who created it?

Thanks for playing. Next!


43 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:00 PM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: ichabod1

“If there is no evolution, then why do we share the DNA of all the living creatures on the earth?”

Elements have certain properties that make them amenable for various uses.

I can imagine comparing evolutionary comparisons among PC’s, iPads, Game Boys etc...

If there is life on other planets it will be DNA/RNA centered, like here, because these molecules have physical properties that allow the functions of life to occur.


44 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: butlerweave

so they’re going with Aliens created life on Earth

...

But how did the aliens get here? I’d prefer one of the anthropomorphic (I don’t know if that’s the right word.) theories before aliens. I also like Asimov’s idea he used for the Last Question.


45 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:43 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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46 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:54 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Kaslin

An ignorant man calculating odds is irrelevant


47 posted on 06/15/2017 1:39:23 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Democrat calls for kumbaya must be met with their blood on the ground)
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To: jonno

Funny, Liberals say the same thing about their programs. Just give it more time (and money). We just know there’s a pony underneath all this horse s***.


48 posted on 06/15/2017 1:41:22 PM PDT by katana
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To: mangonc2

Your assuming that evolution is a natural process that occurs. Sadly, there is no evidence or observed proof that anything has every turned from one animal into another.

The ‘by chance part’ applies to the idea of the very first organism that formed from primordial stew. Also, never has happened or never observed happening.


49 posted on 06/15/2017 1:41:27 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: afsnco
TIME and CHANCE are their dual deities.

You're forgetting DRUGS. They rely upon TIME, CHANCE and copious amounts of DRUGS to believe their fantasy.

50 posted on 06/15/2017 1:41:51 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Kaslin
The dems are proof that there has been absolutely NO evolution:


51 posted on 06/15/2017 1:42:07 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The Bilderbergers are attempting to overthrow the Constitutionally Elected President)
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52 posted on 06/15/2017 1:43:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Where is the news ...


53 posted on 06/15/2017 1:44:00 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Bob434

Yup. I think that is the idea but I could be wrong.

In other words, if the monkey types a F in “Good night, good night! Farting is such sweet sorrow” Darn!....that would equate to the ribbon breaking and having to start over.

At some point, the “random system” has to favor success, and then success again, and then success again and again and again a million times, billion times? That would make the system not random. And a question: wasn’t the early universe (before the big bang) supposed to be completely random? What happened to make it suddenly go from a random system to an organize chaos system?


54 posted on 06/15/2017 1:44:48 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Kaslin
Nothing is impossible - statistically. Improbable maybe but not impossible.
55 posted on 06/15/2017 1:46:26 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Timpanagos1

What a stupid post, and btw when I was born the world population was 2.1 billion


56 posted on 06/15/2017 1:47:09 PM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

The odds that the universe just happened is zero as well. They actually had to create the theory of the multi-verse in order to make it possible.


57 posted on 06/15/2017 1:47:09 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Kaslin
Ok, lets be clear about what we mean by "Evolution".

If we mean Abiogenesis, then I think its clear the weight of evidence is against it being feasible (Abiogenesis means life first coming from the inorganic assuming the natural universe did not have outside help in producing life).

If we mean Common Origin of species in some first species where Abiogenesis already happened as a given, then maybe it is feasible, I am not sure.

Natural selection can't start helping overcome the odds until you have something that can take advantage of natural selection.

If I have a jar of sterilized peanut butter that is sealed against some life getting in it from the outside. I indeed have lots of amino acid and very organic stuff in there. Certainly if abiogenesis were feasible without amino acid and these complex structures given to us for free, then one would expect that life would spring up very quickly from the sterilized peanut butter jar. But that is not what we find. Abiogenesis is only considered feasible by those that need it to be feasible to support their world view. The Emprical evidence is very much against it.

58 posted on 06/15/2017 1:48:32 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: HLPhat

“What is TIME?”

The thing that keeps everything from happening at once.


59 posted on 06/15/2017 1:48:33 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Carbon Creation

One day, after millions of years, the hydrogen fuel in a stellar core will get exhausted, by its conversion into helium. Then, the star, which has till then maintained a hydrostatic equilibrium, by balancing thermal pressure generated through fusion, against the crunch of gravity, gives in again to gravitational collapse. 

The core starts heating up again until it reaches a temperature, where three helium nuclei start fusing into carbon. In this process, carbon, the element on which all of our organic life is based, is created. Through a separate pathway, some oxygen is also created through helium fusion. Thus, two of the life-supporting elements on Earth are created through fusion. 

http://universavvy.com/nuclear-fusion-in-stars

That Carbon?

60 posted on 06/15/2017 1:50:23 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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