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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species

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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
Bob Kelso Offline Donators
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(May 5, 2014 at 11:04 am)Revelation777 Wrote:
(May 5, 2014 at 12:13 am)Aral Gamelon Wrote: [Image: 0NKzG6i.png]

Look son at the picture that is slightly crooked on the wall, pay no mind to the elephant in the room.

Holy shit, this guy gives enrico a run for his money.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 12:45 pm (This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote:
(May 5, 2014 at 11:04 am)Revelation777 Wrote: Look son at the picture that is slightly crooked on the wall, pay no mind to the elephant in the room.

Holy shit, this guy gives enrico a run for his money.

Not comparable. Revs strings random wishes together and call it "arguments". Enrico strings random syllables together and call it "post".
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Quote:Again, it is an unprovable theological assertion that God would not place the same nonfunctional sequences at the same locus in separate species. He may have a purpose for doing so that is beyond our present understanding.
Or the shorter version: "thank god for unprovable assertions."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 1:19 pm (This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 1:20 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 6, 2014 at 12:45 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(May 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote: Holy shit, this guy gives enrico a run for his money.

Not comparable. Revs strings random wishes together and call it "arguments". Enrico strings random syllables together and call it "post".

I'm convinced Enrico randomly generates all of his posts with something like http://www.wisdomofchopra.com

Unfortunately, the random quote generator may in fact be his brain.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 2:31 pm (This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 2:31 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 4, 2014 at 10:18 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Argument #2: Evolution of Species

The evolutionist Kerkut defined the “general theory of evolution” as “the theory that living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.” He goes on to say, “The evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.” G. A. Kerkut, Implications of Evolution (Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1960), p.157.

Kerkut made this statement in 1960.

That was 55 years ago. Evidence has passed him by, by decades.

Quote:My argument is not that change doesn’t take place within species over time. My argument is that no matter how long the time frame, there is no substantial scientific evidence that a microbe has evolved into a human being. Additionally, there is no substantial scientific evidence that non-living chemicals can produce a living cell regardless of time and/or chance.

But you're not making an argument. You're making unsupported assertions.

The people with actual credentials can explain, with evidence and not breaking any scientific laws, how this can happen.

So, again all you prove is that you got nothing.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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#226
RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 3:27 pm
This Micro Macro evolution argument is stupid. Seeing as You guys will move the goal post. Remember when horse evolution never could happen? I do and now all of a sudden it can.
[Image: guilmon_evolution_by_davidgtm3-d4gb5rp.gif]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOW_Ioi2wtuPa88FvBmnBgQ my youtube
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 7:54 pm
(May 6, 2014 at 3:27 pm)ThePaleolithicFreethinker Wrote: This Micro Macro evolution argument is stupid. Seeing as You guys will move the goal post. Remember when horse evolution never could happen? I do and now all of a sudden it can.

Spot on. 'Micro' and 'macro' evolution are exactly the same thing - it is a difference of degree, not of kind.

It is rather like saying, 'I believe in sugar cubes, but lorry loads of sugar are impossible.'

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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 8:28 pm
So what's argument number 3?
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 8:36 pm
(May 6, 2014 at 8:28 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: So what's argument number 3?

Who cares? Looks like he opened with his "best" material.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 8:40 pm
The waits between 'arguments' (read: baseless, unsupported assertions) are logarithmic. 6 days between the one and two, we're looking at three weeks and 2 rule change suggestions before we get to argument #3: If I evolved from a monkey, how come there are still monkeys?
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