(December 23, 2011 at 5:49 am)leo-rcc Wrote:(December 23, 2011 at 4:53 am)power Wrote: I realize many of you do not believe that God exists because you believe evolution is a proven fact,
No, many of us do not believe that any god including yours exist because there is 0 evidence for one.
With regards to the ToE, if you admit that micro-evolution as you call it does exist, what mechanism is there for "macro-evolution" not to occur? After all, "macro-evolution" is just many "micro-evolutions" combined over millions of years.
Nice try though.
Micro and macro evolution are terms used by biologists, like so:
natural selection, long viewed as the process guiding evolutionary change, cannot play a significant role in determining the overall course of evolution. Micro evolution is decoupled from macro evolution.
SM Stanley Johns Hopkins University
Proceedings, National Science Academy Science
Vol.72 p.648
The first reason that micro doesn't lead to macro is because of the DNA code barrier. A dog, for instance, only has the genetic information that will produce another dog. To create something else, information will need to be added. Evolutionists propose this happens by mutations.
The neo-darwinian idea of mutations adding genetic information is falsified by two things. The first is gene depletion, which is the scientific princple that mutations are caused by the loss or sorting of genetic information.
The second is natural selection itself, which works against this neo-darwinian idea because natural selection works to preserve the gene pool and weeds out the genetically weaker mutants.
So, there isn't a logical pathway for macro evolution to occur. This is why after breeding thousands of generations of fruit flies they have never produced a different species. Simply put, macro evolution has never been observed.
Of all choices, atheism requires the greatest faith, as it demands that ones limited store of human knowledge is sufficient to exclude the possibility of God.
Francis Collins
Human Genome Project
Francis Collins
Human Genome Project