[TenthAmendmentChampion]

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[GodGunsGuts]

Just as I suspected. The evidence in favor of creation is growing with each passing day.

[Rudder]

...there has been one rule that evolutionary biologists felt they could cling to: the amount of complexity in the living world has always been on the increase.

Forty-plus years as a life-scientist and I never heard of this rule. Must be a straw man.

[dan1123]

>> Since they began delving into DNA, biologists have been finding that organisms with features that look alike are often not as closely related as they had thought. <<

This is the main reason why I found biology intellectually uninteresting. The similar macro-features => similar micro-features logical leap makes biology seem too ridiculous to be real science.

[Paradox]

[RightWhale]

The evolutionary tree is constantly changing. Every new textbook has its own drawing. This is not to say that the evolutionary path of life from the rock bacteria to our exalted selves has changed at all, but our sleuthing out of how it was is updated all the time. Sometimes they even change the classifications altogether as they try to make some kind of coherent sense of the data collected so far. Even just a hundred years ago when Einstein had his big year 1905 the whole game was the one and only galaxy and it was only a billion years old. More data and more all the time and the picture has to change. It’s good or there would be little point to writing a doctoral thesis anymore.

[Tribune7]

Yup

[Tribune7]

The truth about devolution.

Here's the video

[Secret Agent Man]

I certainly will love it when science finally confirms that no species came from others. It will take time, and there will be extreme reluctance to it, because it’s what the ID folks have been saying all this time.

[Cicero]

I'm not sure whether these discoveries necessarily have much to say about evolution vs. intelligent design. But it's certainly very interesting, and it tends to put a hole in Darwin's central thesis of survival of the FITTEST.

Of course, evolutionary theory is constantly changing and adjusting to newly discovered facts (see the history of gradualism), and I'm sure the Darwinists will adjust to this data too, as long as any of them are left standing.

I liked this comment on the loss of central nervous systems in some species:

"If you just sit around your entire life you don't need much of a sensory integration centre coupled to a locomotor nerve cord," says Arendt.

Moral of the story: Don't be a couch potato.

[Coyoteman]

Since there is so much misinformation being posted here, perhaps a link to a site with some good rebuttals to the standard creationist claims would be helpful:

Index to Creationist Claims, edited by Mark Isaak.

This site takes several hundred typical creationist claims, numbers them, and provides a response, based on science, for each.

[aruanan]

Detlev Arendt, an evolutionary and developmental biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.

Any relationship to Hannah Arendt?

[Caesar Soze]

Both of these are sister phyla to chordates (see Diagram), yet their members have lost their brains and instead have diffuse neural nets. The same seems to be true of various molluscs, brachiopods, phoronids and bryozoans that have evolved to be sedentary filter-feeders. "If you just sit around your entire life you don't need much of a sensory integration centre coupled to a locomotor nerve cord," says Arendt.

Arendt may have discovered the origins of Democrats. This presents the possibility that they did evolve on Earth, and were not introduced from outer space as some believe.

As for the "Creationists," if they overheard two people arguing whether the sky was cerulean or azure, they would declare the "Sky is Blue Theory" to be on its last legs. That goes beyond non sequitur into a whole new realm of wrong--contra sequitur or something like that.

[Elsie]

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[RobRoy]

I’ve been saying since day one that we are de-evolving. Adam and Eve were physically PURE. We are less so.

[RobRoy]

“Instead, they say, we need to rethink the process of evolution itself. “

Yep. Which is what Ptolemy and those that followed his teaching FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS kept doing - until the whole theory finally collapsed under a mountain of irrefutable evidence.

Likewise, the evidence against evolution being exposed almost daily is causing constant “rethinking” on the part of evolutionists. ;)

[mysterio]

Your MO seems to be misinterpreting articles and trying to stir them into some kind of agitprop. Please read a few biology textbooks.

You know, I am a Christian, and I am a biologist / biochemist. One does not preclude the other.