(April 21, 2014 at 11:05 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(April 21, 2014 at 11:02 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: After he is done nibbling on me bum have him read this...
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles...fishy-fish
Seriously, do I have to start bopping you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper whenever you do this?
Try using a squirt bottle - it works on my dog.
(April 22, 2014 at 10:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Any being with sufficient intellect can design a "set it and forget it" evolutionary system to produce what ever that being wants.
A "set it and forget it" evolutionary system doesn't have an end goal and if an intelligent designer had homo sapiens as an end goal (which it must have since creationists conclude that humans are God's special creation), "set it and forget it" evolution is not the way to achieve that goal because at any point along the billions of years of "set it and forget it" evolution enough could have changed in the selection pressures that homo sapiens never would have evolved.
Unless you're saying that this designer monkeyed with the environmental and sex-selection pressures enough to keep evolution "on track" to creating homo sapiens, but then it wouldn't be "set it and forget it" evolution, it would be guided evolution - and there's no evidence that evolution is guided by any kind of designer toward any kind of end goal.
Quote:In evolution theory there is something called punctuated equilibrium which proposes most species will exhibit little change for most of their history. The crocodile is a good example. That beast hasn't changed much in the last 250 million years.
Hasn't changed much? Ancient crocs were GIGANTIC compared to today's crocs! Looking at size alone:
Sarcosuchus (from the middle Cretaceous period ~110 million years ago) was +/- 40 ft long and weighed 10-15 tons
Beinosuchus (~80 million years ago) was 33 feet long and was estimated to weigh ~10 tons and were large enough to prey on tyrannosaurs.
Champsosaurus was a cute little 5-foot-long croc that managed to survive the KT extinction.
Crocodylidae represents the modern form of the crocodile and first shows up around 55 million years ago and while there has been local habitat adaptations, this is the croc that "hasn't changed much" - but that's because its selection pressures haven't changed and it's selection pressures that necessitate natural selection imparting change on creatures.
Here are some resources for you to learn about how much crocodiles have changed over the last 250 million years:
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
