The Problem with Christians

[AJW333]

He ignores everything he doesn't have an answer for. If it's not in the manual, it goes above his head.

Well, maybe he did have some courses in anatomy - was that what he claimed? Or was it anthropology? Can't be recent though. Otherwise he would know about the fossil record. But even if it isn't recent, I'm amazed that he doesn't know about the evolutionary remnants in our bodies. The parts that serve no longer any purpose. I'm also amazed that he doesn't know that a different species of humans walked the earth only some 40.000 years ago. That's the blink of an eye as far as evolution is concerned.

Proof of a different form of humans or a conjecture?

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I said that the vast majority of mutations were negative.

And you're wrong. I proved that a few pages ago. Do you intend to answer for that, or persist with the same scientifically wrong claim?

If you consider minor variations, eg eye colour or shoe size to be mutations, then you are correct. That wasn't the kind of mutation that I was referring to. Given that the context of the discussion concerns the ever increasing complexity of life, and in particular the transition of one species into another entirely different one, the scale of mutations required to do this is massive. How does a fish turn its fins into legs? That would require a great deal of rewriting of the genes that code for that part of the body, not to mention having to create new code to produce the necessary nerve and blood supply and the requisite muscles to support walking. All of these mutations are big! And you have to have a stack of them to make the the transition successful.