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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 10:14 am
Seriously!
Now shoo everyone, shoo!
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 10:58 am
Oh noes, is our theory of evolution acting up again? What seems to be the problem this time? (Great meme K).
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 11:59 am
(January 9, 2014 at 10:14 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Now shoo everyone, shoo!
Funny how necroposting memes only adds to necroposting.
The only problem with the theory of evolution is how these non-specialists insist on specializing.
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 6:29 pm
PUHLEEZE people! Have you no respect for the dead? Let bye-threads be bye-threads.
Some people! REALLY!
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 8:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm by Mudhammam.)
(July 11, 2013 at 3:49 am)Esquilax Wrote: Well, here's your first mistake: it doesn't. Evolution is a theory that solely deals with existing life, and it makes no claim as to anything that happened before life existed, nor the creation of the universe, nor even the creation of life. Just what happens to life over time. Creationists like to conflate evolution with things like abiogenesis and the beginnings of the universe in order to make the theory seem ridiculous and overreaching, but when they do so, they're simply incorrect.
Rocks aren't alive at all, and since evolution is a process that only occurs within living things that can breed, of course it wouldn't have happened with rocks.
Are you sure about this? I'm currently reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dan Dennett, and he argues that Darwinian evolution is like a "universal acid: it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways." Didn't Darwin strike upon a broader principle with his theory of evolution, an algorithm, that can be applied to nearly if not everything (Evolution of religion, morality, psychology...laws of physics, universes, etc.)?
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 8:16 pm
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 10, 2014 at 9:10 pm
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You heard the lady.
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 10, 2014 at 9:15 pm
Perhaps this thread, and all other necropost threads should be closed? You can still read them but can't post in them.
Just a thought
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 11, 2014 at 8:23 pm
(January 10, 2014 at 9:15 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Perhaps this thread, and all other necropost threads should be closed? You can still read them but can't post in them.
Just a thought
Answer my question (a few posts above this one) and then I will agree.
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RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 11, 2014 at 8:42 pm
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(January 9, 2014 at 8:04 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Are you sure about this? I'm currently reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dan Dennett, and he argues that Darwinian evolution is like a "universal acid: it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways." Didn't Darwin strike upon a broader principle with his theory of evolution, an algorithm, that can be applied to nearly if not everything (Evolution of religion, morality, psychology...laws of physics, universes, etc.)? No.
The term "evolution"and it's meaning already existed. Darwin simply applied it to the natural world.
Can we close the thread now?
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