Oh, boy. That article is just...bad. There's no other way to describe it.
To start out, No, evolution is not a scientific law. Laws are mathematical statements with no explanatory power for observed phenomena. They are boiled down empirical generalizations. To say that Evolution is not a Scientific Law, and therefore is worthless is like saying the same for the Theory of Gravity, or Cell Theory. Again, this is an example of preying on the lack of understanding of the masses.
And the dog evolving into a cat thing is on equal par with the crocoduck. It is shameful how they are purposefully passing on misinformation. The examples this article is giving, are just... sad.
Natural selection doesn't create solutions that make you perfectly fitted to your environment. Do you see how this is leading you down a path? They present a solution as if it were fact, like 'If natural selection were true, then eskimos would be hairy." And you think, "Well, yeah!" In reality, the only way that would be true is if Eskimos somehow lost the knowledge about clothing, then the hairiest of them would statistically be more likely to survive into adulthood and have children, and the hairiest of those children would be even more likely to survive, and so on. But they have clothes. Hairy-ness plays no part in the survival of their genes. Same with the silver equator people. Just sad.
Seriously, TC, if you actually read this article and bought what it was selling, then you need to read up on what evolution actually posits. That article makes a lot of claims that are just bare assertions, and offers no evidence to back it up. If an article has that many subjective arguments in it, that should spark your BS meter. Try Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth," or Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution is True," the latter being a little less science-y.
This is clear as well as greatly appreciated. It is precisely why this thread hasn't become a flame-fest.
To start out, No, evolution is not a scientific law. Laws are mathematical statements with no explanatory power for observed phenomena. They are boiled down empirical generalizations. To say that Evolution is not a Scientific Law, and therefore is worthless is like saying the same for the Theory of Gravity, or Cell Theory. Again, this is an example of preying on the lack of understanding of the masses.
And the dog evolving into a cat thing is on equal par with the crocoduck. It is shameful how they are purposefully passing on misinformation. The examples this article is giving, are just... sad.
Natural selection doesn't create solutions that make you perfectly fitted to your environment. Do you see how this is leading you down a path? They present a solution as if it were fact, like 'If natural selection were true, then eskimos would be hairy." And you think, "Well, yeah!" In reality, the only way that would be true is if Eskimos somehow lost the knowledge about clothing, then the hairiest of them would statistically be more likely to survive into adulthood and have children, and the hairiest of those children would be even more likely to survive, and so on. But they have clothes. Hairy-ness plays no part in the survival of their genes. Same with the silver equator people. Just sad.
Seriously, TC, if you actually read this article and bought what it was selling, then you need to read up on what evolution actually posits. That article makes a lot of claims that are just bare assertions, and offers no evidence to back it up. If an article has that many subjective arguments in it, that should spark your BS meter. Try Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth," or Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution is True," the latter being a little less science-y.
(March 25, 2014 at 3:07 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: Thank you though for leading me to consider the rareness of fossilization. My mind is open.
This is clear as well as greatly appreciated. It is precisely why this thread hasn't become a flame-fest.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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