Comments on: Tuesday Open Thread: Darwin Edition

By: jim

jim — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:29:32 +0000

Just as there is no proof of God!!!!

By: BF_Huckabee

BF_Huckabee — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:52:02 +0000

Either you trust the scientific method or you don't. I prefer to go with that which produces tangible results. As with all things, science is fallible as humans are fallible.

It may take years, decades, or even centuries to get it right, but so long as we maintain our curiosity, the truth, pursued through the impassioned eye of the scientific method, wins out over politics and religious dogma.

Did you know that it was a priest who played a pivotal role in the big bang theory? Over the atheist who proposed the steady state theory?

By: AZRed

AZRed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:56:09 +0000

And I'm sure Culex pipiens molestus mosquito will evolve into a much more complex creature. Your micro evolution does not provide the support for the macro evolution required of the theory.

By: AZRed

AZRed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:09:12 +0000

I beg to differ. The transitional fossil record is sorely lacking, to the point of near-non-existence. Claiming that it is caused by accelerated mutation is a weak attempt to explain what cannot be explained in the evolutionary fable. The age old scientific method. If it is disproved, it's still true, it just happened some other way that we haven't discovered yet.
Forget missing links, let's examine the vast number of transitional species identified in the fossil record to provide a roadmap of how each of the millions of species and sub-species arrived. I'll be waiting.

By: AZRed

AZRed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:30:17 +0000

God CREATED all of the beasts and the animals and the fishes. You seem to want to put His ability into a box that fits your religion. Our world as we see it can all be explained easily through the Bible. It cannot be explained through Darwin. As was said by an English biologist "there is far more evidence against evolution than for it, but to believe in the former would require me to believe there is a God, and I can't do that". That is the zero sum game my friend.

By: AZRed

AZRed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:41 +0000

The echo chambers. You mean the ones where all of the like minded scientist-intellectual elites meet and will not hear of a dissenting opinion? You mean those? The ones that will berate dissension as amateur, unpublished, etc? The ones that will not peer review dissension? Thus can't be published? Grant money can't be had if you don't agree? Those echo chambers?

By: AZRed

AZRed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:21:32 +0000

Evolution is not just the religion of life. It is also the religion of the origin of life. It fails on the origin of life as it fails to explain how, contrary to natural selection, many species exist or did exist that do not conform to the theory.

Evolution is only powerful and consistent to those the humanists that practice the religious tenets and maintain the faith.

With such a powerful theory, with the number of mutations that would occur over time, the number of species would increase, over time. And the preCambrian fossil record shows such a small number of complex species, then the Cambrian explosion. The recent fossils should show millions of mutated species after the Cambrian exlplosion, right? Oops, can't prove that so – let's just say they all died off. Only a few species have survived in the last 6000 years.

You put it out there, and I'll shoot holes large enough to drive a truck through it.