By chance?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So someone here has admitted that beneficial mutations are selected for. But guess what? Those mutations are 100% random and are the ENGINE of evolution. No two ways about it. With the randomness (luck) of a series of just the right mutations, you’re winning an impossible numbers game. I wonder how Many lucky mutations it took to get the owls eyes on the butterfly? Lol

You don't really grasp how selection works, do you?

Boru

He repeats that about every page or so. It's almost as if repetition will make us believe it.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Meaningful contributions ID has made to mainstream science(and no Seti and Archaeology don't rely of he design inference )

[Rahn127]

Some say a Jackson Pollock paintings are intelligently designed.

I would disagree.

Looking at one, I could never conclude some kind of intelligence was responsible for it.

[Haipule]

Geez! I told you guys before! Angel with polypollinating sperm + anything = Evolution. Selection most unnatural: have you ever seen a stick bug? They stored all the weird shit in Australia. Ha! And thought we would never find them!

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Of course, they displayed their totally cool shit in Africa. But Australia, all their weird failures. Like the echidna. How did they cross a cute little fuzzy critter with a toe nail?  

Weird

[Paleophyte]

Wow too many responses and too little time for me to even make an effort to rebuke...

Translation: No, ID can't explain the penguin. Or anything else.

[Ranjr]

Be glad humans aren't one of the species God designed as an intermediary step.  I'm talking about dodos and other lines of His designs that, while making it to creation as prototypes, failed to be sustainable.  We know He had some reason to build living things that were doomed from the start.  I can imagine God thinking, "Now, if I'm going to create sequentially stronger invasive species, I'm going to needs lots and lots of dodos and other creatures that get totally wiped out."

It makes perfect sense.  And oh the irony.  He gifted an invasive species with the ability to cogitate, voice and write the term "invasive species" to describe other living things.  Just brilliant.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The need for instant gratification is the root of the creationist paradigm.

[Mister Agenda]

Methinks it is like a weasel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_program

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Methinks it is like a weasel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_program

Another way to envision the experiment (Gould’s, I think) is as follows:

For every bash the monkey has at the keyboard, there is a 1 in 27 chance that the first key it hits will be ‘M’.  Since the analogy is to biochemical evolution, we can establish that only ‘E’ can follow ‘M’, just as certain chemicals only bond with other chemicals (which is why we don’t get neon oxides or gold silicates). Thus, the keyboard will lock up until the monkey hits ‘E’, then ‘T’ and so on. The monkey is still making random keystrokes (analogous to mutations) but they can only be useful in ways the keyboard allows (analogous to selection).


Gould, I’m sure, preferred to look at it this way as it’s more friendly to punk-eek, but it doesn’t change the overall point, which is that evolution isn’t nearly so fantastically unlikely as creationists would have us think.

Boru

[EgoDeath]

How did god do it?

Stop asking difficult questions, bitch