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By chance?
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(February 10, 2020 at 4:22 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I could explain it to Yukon Jack, but I can't understand it for him He doesn't understand because he doesn't WANT to understand.
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I go the other way with it. I think that they do. I think that the nutbars who lob objections for a thousand pages leave knowing exactly why those objections were trash. Doesn't change what they believe. At worst, in their estimation...they have it right for the wrong reasons.
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(February 9, 2020 at 2:48 pm)Nomad Wrote:Yeah. Sounds good. I suppose we'll see. I don"t think Tesla's going anywhere.(February 4, 2020 at 11:25 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Lol, I know right!
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(February 13, 2020 at 2:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Mutations provide ALL THE MATERIAL FOR NEW TRAITS!!!! So you admit now that luck is really your engine, and that’s what I’ve been telling you! How bout that Some here seem to think I don’t know evolution takes forever. Here’s a clue, I know exactly how your Theory works ~~~ I’m calling it in to question likyso many latter day biologists are w the advent of new information. But did you know how many coexisting systems need to be in place bfor a giraffe is able to live with such a long neck? Heart, blood pressure, leg posture formation etc all have needed to mutate new functionality and LUCK of copy errors is to be championed! Such luck my friends RE: By chance?
February 16, 2020 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2020 at 4:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The engine of evolution is selection. As many systems as need to be in place for an organism to live will be expected to have been in place if that organism is...wait for it...alive.
When referring to humans, this is called the anthropic principle. It's not remarkable that all the requirements of an existent creature are met, when we observe that the creature does, in fact, exist.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
RE: By chance?
February 16, 2020 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2020 at 4:23 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(February 16, 2020 at 4:11 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote:(February 13, 2020 at 2:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yes, this is what we've been trying to tell you all along. But selection is the mechanism whereby random mutations become new traits. Luck (random mutations) is the fuel. Selection is the engine. Evolution doesn’t take ‘forever’, so you clearly DON’T know how the theory works. Coexisting systems don’t have to evolve at the same time, nor at the same rate. You seem to think that unless all of the systems you mention popped into existence at the same time that giraffes wouldn’t exist. That’s not how it works. Boru
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RE: By chance?
February 16, 2020 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2020 at 5:27 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
Quote:So you admit now that luck is really your engine, and that’s what I’ve been telling you!Nope you still don't get it .No surprise . Quote:Some here seem to think I don’t know evolution takes forever. Here’s a clue, I know exactly how your Theory works ~~~ I’m calling it in to question likyso many latter day biologists are w the advent of new information.No you don't know how our FACT works .Your not calling it into question your simply denying it because of ideology.And no mainstream biology accepts evolution as firmly as it did 100 years ago nothing has seriously changed in consensus.The best you and your cult of woo biology has achieved is some blogs and some non peer reviewed pop books and a badly done propaganda film .You're not the new science you are a footnote in evolutionary biologies epic and not even an important one . Quote:But did you know how many coexisting systems need to be in place bfor a giraffe is able to live with such a long neck? Heart, blood pressure, leg posture formation etc all have needed to mutate new functionality and LUCK of copy errors is to be championed!All false and fallacy.Because it's all you have . (February 16, 2020 at 4:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Please stop calling it luck because it really isn't .But you are correct irreducible complexity is a joke .(February 16, 2020 at 4:11 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: So you admit now that luck is really your engine, and that’s what I’ve been telling you! (February 16, 2020 at 4:18 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: The engine of evolution is selection. As many systems as need to be in place for an organism to live will be expected to have been in place if that organism is...wait for it...alive.Don't you just love his dishonesty mixed with his arrogance (February 16, 2020 at 4:18 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: The engine of evolution is selection. As many systems as need to be in place for an organism to live will be expected to have been in place if that organism is...wait for it...alive.Don't you just love his dishonesty mixed with his arrogance.Of course creationist so totally expected
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It's not remarkable that all the requirements of an existent creature are met, when we observe that the creature does, in fact, exist.
You forget it’s “unremarkable” that even the simplest of proteins to even come into existence is so improbable that it’s deemed impossible. Quite cavalier of you to dismiss the requirements for a creature, one after another, like marbles in a bowl coming to a very certain rest at the bottom center. It fits your narrative to base your existence on sheer luck of mutations (February 16, 2020 at 8:26 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: It's not remarkable that all the requirements of an existent creature are met, when we observe that the creature does, in fact, exist. As an educational aid, I have used your stubborn intransigence, refusal to learn and ideological commitment up to and including blatant lying for my children. Their reaction? "That guy can't be real, nobody is that stupid." That is how low you have sunk. |
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