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Argument #3: Mutations
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Welcome back, rev.
I see you're still up to your old faulty "arguments". Haven't you learned anything, in those two other threads?  Argument #3: Mutations
June 11, 2014 at 4:51 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2014 at 4:54 am by Rampant.A.I..)
Why are we even entertaining a guy who doesn't know the foggiest about evolution but who insists on talking about it as though he's an expert?
re: "information." The genome is not a hard drive packed with data, where "corruption" would render the contents partially or entirely unreadable. As Max pointed out, there seems to be no correlation between the size or 'complexity' of a creature and the size of its genome (how much genetic information there is, so to speak). Such 'randomness' doesn't affect the theory of evolution at all, but it is an odd factor when considering creation by a supremely intelligent being.
"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 
Waves hello to Revelation777. I wondered where you'd got to.
(June 11, 2014 at 1:00 am)Chuck Wrote: At some point even the most hardened evolutionist must admit that Christians simply don't evolve, ever. Many Christians have evolved because they believe in theistic evolution. 
 Where are the snake and mushroom smilies? 
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope?
Rev, I hope you spent your time away educating yourself and actually understanding the things you don't believe, but doubt it.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech  (June 11, 2014 at 5:57 am)Confused Ape Wrote: Waves hello to Revelation777. I wondered where you'd got to. They may seem to believe in some form of evolution, but they certainly didn't benefit from any form of evolution.  (June 10, 2014 at 11:35 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Carl Sagan, stated that evolution was caused by "the slow accumulations of favorable mutations." However, mutations which apparently result in new traits in an organism are due to the corruption of existing information rather than the formation of mutations gaining new information. This reality conflicts against what would be expected for the advancement of evolution. Derp. |
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